Still costs us too much to house the prisoners. A buddy and I came up with an Old West solution.
Take yer capital criminals and hang ‘em. One a week. From the local High School football field’s goalposts. On a Saturday. With picnic lunch served afterwards.
Local yutes would soon come to understand the personal cost of crime.
I like the idea of public executions, but no picnics... Just hang them in the town square at dawn, and let the bodies dangle until sunset.
But that wouldn’t pass today’s wimpy “cruel and unusual punishment standard” any more than my isolation cells would...