So even if we have significant incarceration and stop a lot of crime for a couple of years, they'll be coming out into the public and be far more dangerous. For instance, the stats we got on discretionary sentences say that it could be 47 days in jail for an average offence, where it would be 700 days in treatment through the others. So you'd have all that time to work on the person, to rehabilitate. Obviously, jails haven't worked for centuries. We know that. People are going to reoffend. So for a longer portion of their life, they will be more dangerous to society.
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