Life should mean life, no chance of parole and hard labour (as was said earlier, Penal sevitude). They can break rocks all day every day in a chain gang or sew mailbags. But no TV, no cellphones, no private cells. $ to a cell and let them get on with killing eachother.
Might help sort out the root causes if we get out of Europe and bring back the birch and allow the cane in school again.