Incarceration is a western phenomenon, it wasn’t really used in traditional cultures, who usually had systems based on family honour. I think we are overly punitive and it’s not effective.
That's actually used to be the norm in Europe, too. Various forms of corporal punishment for smaller offences and death for major ones. Prisons where people would be kept for years at a time are a fairly recent development of XIX century
Yeah, they just either killed or tortured you (or a family member in retribution) or booted you from the tribe- sounds like a death sentence in a lot of cases to me …
