Comment by buran77

> Put them in work programs. If they can’t be productive, put them in mental institutions.

People with this mentality should never, ever be given any semblance of power. In almost every one of your comments you went to the extreme but "forced labor" and "committed to mental asylum" really take the cake.

> but I don’t know any which is better.

Are you genuinely wondering what's better, investing in prisons or in education? As far as I can tell your solutions involve making the problem worse by cutting the access to the only thing that could fix it (education), then building forced work camps and asylums to contain the now exploding problem.

The US stands proof that building more prisons doesn't lead to having fewer criminals. Education does. The first thing you thought of axing.