I disagree on both points.

Money MAKES politicians corrupt because you can't compete for office without it. Once they take it, they are beholden to those who gave it to them. What is required is a system that frees politicians of the need to beg the Godfather for money.

On the question of jailing criminals .. the US already encarcerates more of its population than any nation on earth. At what point does intelligence and reason step in to find another way?