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our actual criminal justice system is often pretty impervious to the use of, you know, evidence, to improve its pathologies. So we keep having, for example, mandatory minimum sentences despite centuries of evidence they basically don't work, and we try to deter criminal behavior in other ways not supported by any evidence.

Lots of this is driven by politics, tough on crime, etc. How do we change that?

I'm a little confused why this is relevant? We don't lock up over 2,000,000 ppl at any one time, and bring over 10,000,000 a year through a jail cell, for murder/rape/pedophilia.