What if dude just got locked up for a day in a case of mistaken identity but successfully sued for millions of dollars? I mean lock my ass up in this scenario that will never happen but really has me randy dreaming about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr97XsioFGM

This question makes no sense. It's a fallacy. In reality, each person is already dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Jury nullification is a thing. If we're talking about laws, and the way that they're enforced: if the methodology is flawed, you improve it. You keep working with whatever works best, at the time, because it's all you can do. We already only (theoretically) punish those after they've exhausted their presumption of innocence. Most of the cases where this is not true is either due to corruption or incompetence; which are separate issues, altogether. Whoever asked this question is an arm-chair philosopher of the booziest order. I'm fully aware of where this quote comes from.

*edit: I thought this was askpoal, and that it was a question. I'm sure it was a novel idea back when it was first proposed ("okay guys: let's not lynch this dude 'till we can at least find out where the money we think he stole came from.")

Best to build a society where prisons are not needed. Fuck prisons and the cultures that require them.

Blackstone's ratio.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Well, we have plenty of guilty getting off, so I hope the innocent guys aren't being put away.