Michael, I would love to agree with you but in this case there are numerous examples of criminals being released on laughably low bails.  Remember the recent article about the CHOP SHOP in Eagle River with possible ties to drug running?  I believe their bail was 500 & 750.  Definitely no more than 1500.  If this is how we treat organized crime you can imagine how lackadaisical we are with circumstantial criminals such as drug addicts.  Just yesterday police had to issue a bolo for a girl that had recently left prison for check forgery and various forms of theft and was already with her friends stealing vehicles again.  The bar is set SO low that criminals don't give 2 fucks.  We need to establish a system that prefers reform but also detracts from repeat offending. Alaska (and the USA in general) loves to cite all these wonderful examples from around the world but never comes up 2 the plate to fund them.  Guess what people-these transformational systems like in Norway come with taxes.