Using our justice system to meter out extreme punishment would mostly impact poor people, and it is not as if the US has historically been very good at listenin

Using our justice system to meter out extreme punishment would mostly impact poor people, and it is not as if the US has historically been very good at listening to the suffering of poor people. The Bay Area can barely keep service workers in housing and its taken several decades of this problem to get even the slightest bit of progress.