I have a personal comment. When you're talking about theft, in our own household we've had nine thefts of our car. On one occasion, the two young men who had stolen the car were actually apprehended and charged. We were never even notified that it had in fact happened and they had come to court.
What would have satisfied me as the victim in that case was not that these people would go to jail, but that somehow they would be called to account for their crimes and we would have had some kind of opportunity to speak with them.
Often what we're saying is there are ways of addressing these issues other than prison.