Reddit reviews When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
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This would be very wrong. Cruel and unusual punishment. Torture. A thousand-year sentence in 8 hours does nothing for us that other forms of torture available to us don't already do.
I can see the appeal for people who think the purpose of prison is to make people feel punished. This would do the trick. I think the main benefits we get as a society from having prisons are to incapacitate dangerous psychopaths (keep them away from us), and to rehabilitate people when possible. The rest of what we spend on prisons is a pointless, cruel waste of money.
For more of this line of thinking, check out this book by a Public Policy professor here. (I don't benefit in any way from that book and I don't know the author personally. I just like it.)