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that's kind of true - if you put the right humans in cages
Nope. Even in a hypothetical world where all the ones guilty of a sufficiently severe crime and ONLY those go to prison, that doesn't make the world a safer place with less crime.
Punishment and the fear of same isn't anywhere near as powerful a motivator to stop breaking the law or deterrent as they've been telling you.
If it was, the US would be by far the safest with the least crime of all Western countries in stead of closer to the opposite.
what about locking up all the rich people and redistributing their wealth?
I'm wholeheartedly in favor of the latter, but the former wouldn't help.