Because in the end prison will take about as much money and mental strain from your life as a divorce, but in a Canadian prison if you get out they try the rehabilitation approach and actually help you to find a job and a place to stay. Only one more thing to make prison the "duh" choice, segregation of muds and whites. If in all their fart sniffing smuggness they dare to do that the unintended consequences will blow their simple minds.