As far as whinging about the cost of keeping them in prison and the money being better spent somewhere else...that can be said about almost anything the government spends money on, i.e. funding for so-called wars, pillaging of natural resoruces, etc...so much more has been spent/lost by incompetents/criminal politicians that comparisons fail. And the pity of it is, most of them never do any time or even go to trial.