The problem is you guys may not want the US system but that's what you end up with, if you are going to make the world safe by long sentences then they have to be until the guy is into his 60's as jail makes offenders more violent not less, and longer sentences without the leverage of early release will make that worse.
If you lock this guy up for 10 years instead of 4 you get a far more violent offender at the end of the 10 years, there is no middle ground here where you just lock them up for an extra year or 2, that makes things worse, you go all the way and end up with vast numbers of native men locked away for life in the same way the US locks up Black men, you have to be comfortable with this, and realise the main reason you are locking them up is because of both their god awful backgrounds that we created and the fact they cant afford the sort of representation most of us would pay for.
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