Not only is the criminal justice system abusive (a problem itself) it plain isn&#x27;t working.<p>The thing is... there are some extremely bad people in the system who know the ins and outs and consider prison just another place to abuse others while being taken care of.<p>We have too many laws. We spend to much time worrying about little stuff and not enough about big stuff. My personal opinion (I realize this is not likely to be a popular one) is that we need to stop locking people up for little things and return to public hanging for big things. Smoking crack might be stupid but is it really a crime?<p>On the other hand someone brutally killing a child for fun doesn&#x27;t deserve to even breathe our air. Something like this is beyond rehabilitation. It is broken. Put an end to it without delay and return the raw material to the earth. But don&#x27;t monkey around with solitary confinement. It is inhumane and in my opinion probably more so than hanging.