@YouGiveMeFever You dismiss my points by stating, essentially, that you will accept no points, and then you declare that people want to "make the best of their own lives" by imposing mob justice (prison) instead of following the law (probation).
You are not preparing people, you are rabble-rousing. You seem not even to have been aware the penalty was probation rather than prison, or else you would have prepared people for that.