Great article! The solutions already exist. Unfortunately, proscriptive morality is America's wellspring thanks to its religious founding. To fix crime requires a reversal of two centuries of dogma. We've known the solutions for decades, even have working programs operating inside the US to act as models, yet "soft on crime" remains political suicide. And at the source of it all, as you said, is the lack of socialized medicine. That one policy, the one every other developed country has, would transform America in ways most Americans could scarcely believe. Alas...