In three years time, Americans willfully murder more people than we lost in that entire war. This is staggering to comprehend. It is quite plain to the objective observer that our present system is doing very little to actually deter crime. Criminals no longer really fear our system of justice. Judges can in some cases be bought.
Courts are so jammed that plea bargaining and reduced sentencing are routine matters.
If in the rare case a man is sent to prison, he only learns to hone his skills to a fine art. There must be a better answer, and thankfully there is. Prisons are an ungodly creation of man. As long as men persist in being ungodly by ignoring God in building their own social order, they will suffer the chaotic fruits of their evil systems. In biblical law, prisons as we know them and prison sentences are unknown.