There are lot of things wrong with the criminal justice system in the US (high re-arrest rates show this problem), but it was interesting to see that other parts of the world generally have similar or higher re-conviction and re-imprisonment rates: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-28/v1 …
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True, there are many moving parts not covered by these stats. It might be more humane to have shorter sentences and have to re-convict more rather than keeping them in jail until they are older, mellow and less likely to be re-convicted. But the stats were still surprising.
More humane to them but with such high recidivism rates, it's less humane to society.
