"If people could be convinced that "life without parole" actually means "life without parole", that the person receiving that sentence will never get out of prison at any time for any reason, then perhaps the support for the death penalty would fade. However, so long as people believe - rightly or not - that murderers will someday be set free, I believe the people will continue to support capital punishment and will continue to elect people who won't repeal those laws. "

I believe that the underlying problem in regards to keeping criminals in prison is our Prohibition against drugs. I also think that the severity of this farce is easily demonstrated by the inability of keeping black market drugs out of prisons.
I think we should go about taking steps to lift the prohibition, but this seems like it's not politically possible. So instead I suggest that a serious effort should be made to have all our prisons 100% clean of street drugs. I also think that a large effort should made to reduce crime in prisons. And in addition I believe that the moral behavior of prison population be imposed so as to make prison resemble a Monastery rather than a Mad house.