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Heres the thing. The objective always is to get the person who committed a crime not do do it or something similar again.

In this day and age, we should be able to be a lot smarter than simply locking someone up. Branding is a no no I think, it just opens up the door for a return to the middle ages, but we have tracking equipment that is very accurate. We can confine people to their homes etc pretty easily.

Serious crimes like murder etc, still require some sort of custodial sentence, but many other crimes simply don't need this