[lui8906]

> What's the alternative? Someone commits a felony, and then you...?

The US is the OECD country with the highest per capita % of incarcerated individuals. By orders of magnitude. So it seems other countries have found other approaches?

> Source: Half of the OECD countries have less than 100 people in prison per 100 000 inhabitants. Thirteen have between 100 and 200. Two countries exceed this – Poland with 230 and the United States with more than 700. The US rate is the highest in the world followed by Russia with about 600 per 100 000 inhabitants. Except in the United States imprisonment rates for women are negligible.

https://www.oecd.org/sdd/37964686.pdf

[aranazo]

Russia's incarceration rate seems to have fallen dramatically in the last decade, 356 per 100 000 in 2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1022927/russia-annual-in...

[nukemaster]

Whatever California and NYC tried absolutely didn't work so you can't just say "something else."

[lui8906]

Who wrote something else? Not sure if you're referring to another comment or I'm being strawmanned? :)

[Bancakes]

They haven't. USA simply has rampant crime unheard of in the EU short of the jungles refugee centres are (non-ukrainian).