[igorstellar]

Do you think our prisons have enough capacity to take more people in? I think the proper punishment for the leadership would be something like getting their retirement package away and leaving the industry without an ability to get back in.

[hedora]

US prisons house about 0.7% of the population, or about 1.4M people (depending on the source).

The US has about 200,000 CEOs. Not all CxO’s are crooks, but if they were, we could jail all the CEO’s and an average of 6 of each one’s direct reports using our existing prison infrastructure.

I’d wager the average criminal CxO does significantly more ongoing damage to society than the average person in US prisons would if released.

[__blockcipher__]

I’m not endorsing the idea of prison time, but the short answer is: yes, of course there’s room, assuming we’re talking about C-suite level executives and maybe 1 or 2 hops below. That’s just a handful of potential prisoners and would be quite manageable.