One reason for this may be the fact that prisons in the US are run as a business, with private companies earning billions and therefore having an interest in ensuring that there are as many inmates as possible.

"Capitalism breeds innovation!!"

The innovation:

4. Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm etc to profit from the desperation (and captures governments to ensure focus is placed on increasing the profitability of these ventures)

seems an awfully long time to make that conclusion

We still have debtors prisons

Not in the United States. Here, it’s just called “prison”. And you certainly don’t have to break the law to end up there for life.

And come, certainly, nobody who has been sentenced to death could ever possibly deserve it. Because murder isn’t justice.

cheaper to keep them out of prison. but nope, big companies cant get thier payout from the government then