Crime means something to us Americans when we have actually harmed someone and not simply offended some behavioral code. Where police and the "justice system" get a bad rap is they [typically] act like Cartman anytime their authority isn't immediately respected. A great example is the police chase: Trying to pull someone over for a broken tail light or for running an intersection and they take off? Cool, let 'em go and catch up with the registered owner later because you have the plate. You don't see anyone dying in the car, there is no emergency where you have to interact RIGHT NOW GODDAMNIT OR I'LL PIT- YOU I SWEAR!!! Another set of problems come from the absolute involuntary nature of it combined with the straight gaslighting about The Social Contract (yeah produce it with my ink signature) we received as school children. If we were customers to government the same way we were to Albertson's or BestBuy, I would have zero to do with them for sticking me in a mancage for a few days because I broke corporate policy X.YZ. Yet somehow religiously, it's OK for a special group which wears the abstract armor of god to? My neighbors have no more right to determine that my cooking and use of methamphetamine should put me in a cage, anymore than I have the right to steal back in value my time taken from me in the form of property they own.

Until governments wall off large sections of their land to form "free zones" similar to nature preserves, so that temporary or permanent expatriations become viable options in lieu of man cages or executions, this is not an actual justice system but a war-machine. The War on Crime has been the most abused and bastardized excuse for expanded state-gang power, feeding on peoples fears of a little bad guy so they need big bad guy to protect them (for a small tax, or you get the cage... no third choice other than be killed in a shooting fight). Criminal justice should not be about revenge but instead safety and rehabilitation. Caging a human animal involuntarily instead of merely excluding it from the rest is still barbaric. When someone going in for decades says he'd rather be dumped at the international border for equally long (or permanent) expatriation, you and taxpayers should be excitedly jumping with joy that $50,000/yr is going to be saved. If you feel bad because he did a no-no against you and now he's in Mexico sipping malgaritas? Grow up, or get a gun to go down there and fix it yourself! Quit giving power to religious institutions (the State is a religious institution, or homomorphic to it).

The impulse to "Take nice things away" from someone to make them miserable for something which I am sure they never agreed to in the first place needs to be stricken and actively prosecuted as prisoner abuse. A non-abusive SHU would have the victi... err prisoner, move his belongings which can keep him occupied into that solo cell. When a prisoner refuses to work, you do not take away his private entertainment devices from his room. That is abusive behavior, if he had the choice he would run away from you or shoot you for assaulting him in taking his TV and locking him in a SHU with nothing but his cloths for weeks.

I swear on the fabric of the universe itself that, if I end up on a jury trial for someone accused of assaulting law enforcement, I will most likely jury nullify unless it was literally a patrol man saying hi and instantly getting punched, or something. We don't have the institutional power to put you in cages similar to the ones you use, so we have to hack the system other ways and since a juror does not need to justify himself in being unconvinced a single juror can stop your human mulcher dead.

Finally, go lock yourself up for a few months, tell me how anyone slighly brain-broken is going to be helped by that (let alone recover for many).

All these games we play, are to attempt to supercede natural law: you attempt to predate me, I attempt to kill you in self defense. I don't mean legal defense, according to Criminal Code X.YZ, but natural defense like the gazelle getting lucky impailing the lioness. This only works so long as people in general have something to lose at the end of your gun, give some a 6-mo terminal diagnosis or the possibility of life in a cage if caught and they may opt to naturally defend themselves (and like the French I agree with this sentiment, and reserve jury nullification for it).