You can see how these women will never stop being incarcerated, and the system isn't going to fix them.

Actually it's lower than that. The 2.5 also includes people that were jailed or imprisoned for things like DUI or traffic violations where they didn't have the money for the ticket so accept 10-30 days in jail. Removing those types from the percent drops it to about 2%. Then you have the double counted people because the way the stats are tracked a person that is in jail in a state prison and then a federal prison is counted as 2 different people instead of just as one. In fact if you had a person that was in prison in 3 different state prisons they would be counted 3 times because the statistics aren't tracked in a way to eliminate people incarcerated in multiple venues. If you clean up the number it would probably be closer to 1.5 to 1.75%.

Then you have to look at demographics and you find that some groups in the US are more likely to break laws and get imprisoned. I'm not really worried about being in a prison as much as I'm worried about being the victim of some lowlife fuck that will end up in prison. Hell I've already been robbed twice in my life who knows how many more times I'll get robbed... Though if they would just hang the cocksuckers that rob people they would eliminate a lot of crime as the last fucker that robbed me was caught. 2 years later I received the notice from the DA telling me the outcome of the case. Probation and this was a cocksucker that already had a criminal record for robbery. What are the odds someone like that is magically going to stop being a criminal when they had no punishment.

I agree if it's murder then eliminate them. But even for minor things they shouldn't be coddled. A prison where they are broken down to nothing is the first step. These guards are too soft. The moment an inmate fails to do what they are told they should be cracked upside the head. If they live through it they wont act up again. But verbally arguing with an inmate is not send the right message.

Trouble is the courts continue to read that amendment as cruel or unusual... most punishments that they toss out were never cruel AND unusual. Remember the kicked out the death penalty in the past when it was never unusual it was real fucking common.