With pressing issues such as overcrowding, overuse of solitary confinement, and the long-term incarceration of nonviolent offenders, many critics of the nation’s prison system are calling for sweeping reforms. Here are some of the proposals to improve the prison system:

Create thousands of productive jobs for inmates constructing more prisons



Use solitary confinement only in cases of severe guard anger



Slightly shorter prison sentences for those who were wrongfully convicted



Take preventative measures by working with kids to convince them not to grow up in areas with disproportionately high incarceration levels



Some more dogs to read to or train or whatever



Ease the emotional strain caused by inmates’ separation from their families by imprisoning their loved ones with them



Increase length of a life sentence to 150 years to really deter potential criminals



Avoid whole prison reform headache by solving nation’s education, mental health, drug problems instead