I agree with everything you said. I am okay with more swift and harsh sentences. An eye for an eye. You murder someone, you forfeit your life. Drugs, drunk driving homicide rehab is okay, but only if there are rehab programs that work. People have to be in the right mind set for rehab to work. Prisons are corrupt, guards are complicit, vindictive, and retaliatory in many cases, I believe. Also, whatever happened to the work programs in prisons? Now it is viewed as cruel and unusual punishment to have prisoners working. If you are going to have prisons, make prisoners work, learn a trade, get paid a menial amount and the rest goes toward paying their bill in prison. Some people need to be imprisoned while waiting on appeals (depending on the crime). But being locked up for hours on end does not help-they need to pay back society and the victims in some way, but they also need to be prepared for a life outside of prison. Our government has been complicit in the addiction of drugs and alcohol. The government gets money to continue with their endless wars and other evil purposes. Plus a controlled population from addiction makes less people to resist the evils of government.