>“We could be keeping them and be giving services while they’re in jail,” says Fabbri. “It could really be effective.

>we’re not solving our problems when we pretend low-level crimes aren’t important.

Those two facts are the crux of the issue. Prisons do not rehabilitate criminals; they just restrain them. Couple that with the fact it costs, on nationwide average, $84 per day to incarcerate someone and the average petty criminal steals less than $84/day and you end up with an uncomfortable conclusion. That conclusion is that it would be cheaper to offer government-funded total coverage crime insurance than it is to arrest the criminals.