The 5-10 years isn't unjust. Even them fucking up afterwards and going back in isn't necessarily unjust. It's just that recidivism in that case is an avoidable

The 5-10 years isn't unjust. Even them fucking up afterwards and going back in isn't necessarily unjust. It's just that recidivism in that case is an avoidable thing, but people would just let it happen because they can imagine some situation where some perpetrator deserves worse. It's frankly an incredibly stupid hill to die on, even if you completely discount the wellbeing of the person being incarcerated. The system isn't ignoring the impact of crime on victims, it just doesn't let victims completely run the show in sentencing/punishment. Sometimes there's bad outcomes, but that's fixable. You can never fix people that feel the death sentence is appropriate for even the slightest transgression, and if you add some sort of oversight to that you're right back where we are. You do not want street justice. I don't understand how one could possibly not understand how bad it would be. There's a reason we rag on societies that enable it.