I'm 100% for keeping people safe, including physically separating dangerous people from the rest of the population, but
1) Way too often, we don't catch the killer or put people away on flimsy evidence.
2) We have murderers in prison way beyond the circumstances that led to them to commit murder. In other words, ones that likely pose no particular elevated risk.
3) The inhumane conditions of the prison system do nothing to enhance public safety. In fact, they make it worse by doing immense trauma to incarcerated people, leading to high recidivism and high violence and poor health within the prisons.
1) Way too often, we don't catch the killer or put people away on flimsy evidence.
2) We have murderers in prison way beyond the circumstances that led to them to commit murder. In other words, ones that likely pose no particular elevated risk.
3) The inhumane conditions of the prison system do nothing to enhance public safety. In fact, they make it worse by doing immense trauma to incarcerated people, leading to high recidivism and high violence and poor health within the prisons.