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If that actually worked we would never have progressed from the inhumane system we had just a few generations ago to the system we have now. US jails and the US system is far less hospitable then ours yet their crime rates don't reflect that ideology.

Just curious, and just ignoring the many other factors attributed to higher incarceration rates in the United States, why do you think the US correctional system is less hospitable compared to ours? I'd say it's maybe equal.

Well for one we don't have 3 strikes and you are out rules which to me is a factor that should be a crime deterrent and isn't. For another you don't here about prisons akin to the Arizona tent prison nor do you get the level of prison riots where inmates kill each other or force corrections officers to kill them. Third the US system does have demonstratably harsher sentences up to and including the death penalty. What factors do you think you can use to invalidate the fact that a comparison between the US and Canada is great evidence that simply increasing sentences and making them easier to get will not have any affect on crime whatsoever?

If our crime rate will go down with a harsher penal system then why does it not work in the US and why do we see report after report come out about the failure of tha type of system?