Having housing (whether prison or an apartment) is a prerequisite to get Andre to stop stealing, but it's not sufficient alone. If our prison system was rehabil

Having housing (whether prison or an apartment) is a prerequisite to get Andre to stop stealing, but it's not sufficient alone. If our prison system was rehabilitative in the slightest, it would be a good place to keep Andre from harming society. Instead, it's a highly expensive way of temporarily keeping him from harming society until he gets out, and returns to stealing. The left doesn't seem to have any well formed ideas on actually replacing/reforming the current prison system with something that doesn't have horrible recidivism rates. Obviously there are alternatives but they don't seem politically viable in America. Instead, cities have focused on prosecuting less, which avoids inflicting more cruelty but allows other injustice to persist. At least in the short term, ignoring the problem uses a lot fewer tax dollars than actually implementing solutions.