[narrator]

This is called prison, but that's pushing the easy button which is strictly forbidden.

[kube-system]

If that was the easy solution then the US would have solved it in the 1990s during the war on drugs.

[kadoban]

If prison solved a society's problems, the USA would be a utopia.

[rsynnott]

The US imprisons more people per capita than any other democratic country, and than most non-democratic countries (only North Korea and arguably China really come close). Unaccountably, it is not a crime-free utopia (it's actually fairly crime-y by rich developed standards).

[joquarky]

Putting people in prison has substantial costs.

[TitaRusell]

In my country it was eventually accepted that some people are too far gone. The junkies got their daily ration of drugs until they died of natural causes.

I don't think America is culturally capable of doing that though.