The system of laws on Earth starts with the propensity for jails.  Other than that, within contemporary penal 'solutions,' we only have, pretty much, death.

When a person does something bad, he must see the consequences of his actions in order to grow and evolve.  This is sort of a way of his seeing himself, though I guess it also has more to do with his apt functioning within the world of his choice, as the outward influence and returning causation constitute a confluence with another being at least, 'the outside reality.'

Within a person's internal makings, we could imagine that there are 'parts' or 'aspects' of him that must communicate with each other, or at least know about each other, or at least learn about each other, or at least interact functionally..  whether we're talking about his body and the emotions and thoughts and other energies stored within it, or the emotional parts/aspect of his mind or psyche per se.

Similarly, since life is scalar, a whole economy or society could be seen as an analogue to this.

When you put somebody in jail, here's what happens:

First, people are born free, and sometimes freedom must make mistakes.  At best, sometimes freedom must express anger and anger gets pretty bad.  Here's a trick, for you men of the law: if anger gets bad then quite obviously the world justified it.  Suppressing anger doesn't do a whole lot of good, any more than suppressing any other part of yourself.  I've seen some angry racists figure out how to lie to themselves until they're not racist anymore and that intelligence is where the Sun can't see 'cause it probably don't Shine (I just -speculate- that an inherent racism is some reason.. there are other reasons.).

Second, oppressing this anger is another name for making people suppress it due to threat of force.  For example, like I've said before.. and I would know about this, "The regret of shooting someone in the head before you understand their eternal love is not as bad as when your spirit is crushed by the law."  People must be left to their own means of self-destruction, mutual destruction, and their correspondent evolutionary progress.

Some people in prison kill themselves due to.. what.  Boredom?  Well, something like that.  Similarly to using the weakly-charactered tack of shutting your children out from vital social evolution or a breath of air, the people in prison cannot stand it for reasons you wouldn't understand, nor would likely care to understand, without spending an extensive time in prison.  But it's easy to shut them off and not care about them because they're in prison, right?

Afterall, they did something, and in your Schadenfreudian tendencies you're justified in-side yourself for hating their guts enough not to care what happens to them.  An eye for an eye... brilliant.  At least when it's really an 'eye for an eye' it's symmetrical so it may cancel out in destructive interference..and if everybody's blind maybe they'll stop doing it anymore because they can't see where their eyes are at.  So no, jails are worse.

Third, by putting them away in jail, you deprive them of the opportunity to express theirselves in their pathology to the world, to see, grow & evolve from, even including those people who aren't willing to look until they're raped in the dark alley while going to work..  this is, quite obviously to anyone who still sees after poking each other's eyes out, related to the whole-body metaphor I gave.

Fourth, by putting them away in jail, you deprive them of the opportunity to *give* to society in the way we truly define benefactor.  To make the stained-glass windows.. to paint the art.  To hug a bum.  To.. uhh.. have sex with a lady.  uhh, talk with friends, anything.  So in this scenario, a) society loses 1) their benefit from them, 2) the inverse of the bad karma they caused by doing something bad, 3) the ability to see that, despite that horrible person they saw in prison, there's really some light of good in there.., and b) the guy in prison loses 1) the ability to make people happy by genuinely being himself and thus making him happy enough not to hang himself by a belt 20 years later after getting worried of dying to death, 2) the ability to learn about himself through this ability to make others happy, 3) the freedom in general that God put him on this planet to have, and so on and so on.

Now, some people, who challenge the Sun, might still be burnt enough to be stupid enough to say something like, "well, if freedom is everything, why isn't it okay for police officers to put them in jail."  There are several reasons for that.  1, right now I have freedom to make an essay, 2) there's something called 'karmic loops' and they're no fun.  Antiloops can get pretty expensive when the loops are so bad.  In this case, I don't even care about the guys in prison as much as the environment's time running out on US, okay?  oh, and 3) the Sun actually does have the freedom to burn you all to a crisp.  Unfortunately, it doesn't have lenses and it can't melt jail-bars.

Meanwhile, the police officer who oppresses you is having fun making up for lost childhood with his ego, while you think that you need to respect him because he knows he can get it by threat of force of approximately 700,000 other police officers in the same nation not including FBI, CIA and Homeland Security.. it's a long line of badges there, a long way down, the cat in the hat with cooked goose.

Some hippies are ideal enough to say that a badge is just a symbol.  Well it is.  But reality creeps in and says that causality will fucking blow your brains in, sometimes.. when you don't land in jail.

Anyway, this is my antiloop.  I hope enough lights went off while reading it.. cuz we're #sick-of-it.

I don't *necessarily* expect one essay to change the world -- it hasn't already yet, what happened?? -- but I can publish it in a book, and really the only thing I'm interested in is that it burns out enough light bulbs that at least it creates a shifting reality-rift in which any judge who meets somebody has a serious problem..

also i'd like the infinite line of police badges to rupture in some places and spread out into humor and high enough to coincidentally meet the hippies in the sky.. when they happen to meet them.