While I agree that drunk driving is deserving of imprisonment, that can never be the acid test of whether a punishment can be instituted. I think that far too many people are already in prison in the UK - and as for the US - I'll stay out of that one for the rest of the thread! Of course, the attraction of this approach is that it does leave the rest of us at threat from one less drunken driver for the duration of the sentence. I still maintain that making drunk drivers clean up after bad accidents and confronting them more directly with the consequences of drunk driving would be more likely to prove effective in dissuading them from future offences. They do not often think of themselves as criminals. They need to be disabused of this wrong idea.