But think about it. In the USA, if a person received punishment for crimes that he really deserved, wouldn't people be dissuaded from acting criminally?
I mean, put yourself in the shoes of the crook. What if you stole $100,000, and you knew that if you were caught, you would wind up working hard labor in prison until you paid off double or triple? Wouldn't that cause you to think twice before you became a thief?
Or what if you were going to murder someone? What if your punishment if you were caught was a life of hard labor to pay back the family of the one you murdered, and then you would be executed when payment was finally completed? You would think it over a few times, wouldn't you?
Some of our prisons are the most luxurious places in the world, almost. Prison bad people receive greater care than the poor homeless on the streets.
Make the punishment for doing harm or damage to be serious punishment. Why? Because then open borders won't be an issue. Anybody coming in would be a good person for fear of serious and logical punishment. If they came in, they would be a benefit to society. If they weren't a benefit, but rather a detriment, they would be working it off in prison, or they would be executed. People would learn to stay away if they were bad people. If they were good people, we would want them to come in.
Most of all, make the punishment 10 times as harsh for the prosecutors and government people who lie to get someone else convicted. Give them 10 times the punishment they were looking to give the people who they convict, if they convict knowing that their conviction was a false one.
In fact, this is the reason why the courts don't do harsh sentencing. It's because the court people are often worse than anyone else. And they want a light sentence if they get caught. So they set the sentencing for everyone to be light sentencing. This makes all the crooks so that they don't fear punishment very much.