No. Can I pause and interject? I would disagree, but we're getting into a tangential debate.
The reality is, and this is my point, the Americans have a 700% higher rate of incarceration per capita--700%. It used to only be a difference of about 200%. In that same period of time the two crime rates in the two countries have declined by basically the same amount. So if we're going to follow your strategy here of much larger prison populations, let's just keep it really simple: name a jurisdiction that has tried this that hasn't ended in disaster--one jurisdiction.