To me, the fact that we incarcerate people for decades in these horrible prison systems, send prisoners to die, and prosecute minors as adults, are proofs of our inhumanity to one another.
The American penal/prison system (conveniently personified by the D.A. in this video) is arcane, unjust, expensive and ineffective.
A man commits a crime and rather than make an earnest attempt to rehabilitate him, we rob him of his dignity, throw him to the wolves, cage him like an animal, ruin his life in every way, and we expect this to somehow improve our society?
Surely there's a better way...