I would go further. Prison should only be used for violent crimes with a high degree of intentionality. It's been said that if you asked someone to design a pr

I would go further. Prison should only be used for violent crimes with a high degree of intentionality. It's been said that if you asked someone to design a process to create more criminals, they would likely invent prisons: mix as many skilled criminals, with random unfortunate individuals, so that they can share their knowledge of criminality, and have to fight to survive. Prison is bad as a deterrent and is terrible at reforming criminals. The only thing prison is good at, is keeping violent people off the street. There's absolutely no reason why non-violent offenders should be in a prison, give them any other punishment instead.