| People don't just get out of bed and decide one day I am going to rip off the system and become a billionare.
Its a series of small (criminal) steps at first and then growing into bigger riskier steps as time goes on.
Its those first steps people COULD take that a sentence like this should be acting as a deterence for.
When you talk about the death penalty or work gangs for prisioners and no rehab then you are moving from a justice system to a vengence system. But thats a whole other discussion.
I will point out that if you do make work groups out of prisioners then you are competing against priviate groups who build roads, buldings etc. | 