Posted on 10/23/2026 7:27:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Prisons are expensive. States lock up only as many people as it takes to keep voters from getting up in arms about crime, and not one more.
A small used container ship can be bought for $5 million. 40-foot shipping containers cost around $1,250. Fitted with plumbing, wiring, insulation, drywall, ductwork, windows and doors, each container becomes a spartan housing unit for roughly $8,500. Bunks stacked three-high in two rows along each side, one container would sleep about 30 inmates, and still have room for a shower, toilet, and sink.
A small ship holds about 250 such units, enough for roughly 7,500 inmates. The total cost of ship and housing is just over $7 million, or under $1,000 per inmate. Compare that with $160,000 in Alabama or $350,000 at DHS. The money Alabama is spending on 8,000 beds could, in principle, house more than a million inmates afloat.
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Sheriff Joe did it in Arizona but no one else did.
I understand, but building with masonry can be done affordably, too.
Have the inmates quarry stone, make bricks, pulverize rocks to make sand, mix mortar, and lay the masonry units for their own custom, multi unit housing. They’ll get exercise, learn a skill and build the accommodations for them and their future buddies that they can have pride in. It’s such a self-esteem building approach.
With all that masonry some walls can be put up around large tracts of land where they can plant corps to feed themselves. Tilling that soil, weeding, harvesting; all by hand should give them plenty of time out in the fresh air to commune with nature and think about how they want to live when they get out. It’s an organic lifestyle that will allow them to get in touch with themselves and the seasonal cycles of nature.
The profits from selling off the surplus materials can be used to buy Ben Gay, sunscreen, gloves and new tools. How cool is that?
Because I’m sure they aspire to be paragons of societal virtue they probably would prefer to live off the grid, so AC and electricity won’t be needed either.
I’m in favor of the technique used in “Minority Report”:
Medically induced coma until completion of the sentence. Intravenous feeding and top quality medically managed care.
The money saved on work out equipment in prisons across the country alone would probably be a cost savings and it would turn into a hellacious deterrent.
Came here to shout out the late sheriff Joe.
My son in law had a container for his quarters when he was deployed to Djibouti . They were stacked several high. They were hot—but they had AC.
It wasn’t on a ship. It was not comfortable. I guess being in the Army can sometimes feel like being imprisoned. LOL
Joe Arpaio is still alive.
WHOA! So he is! I was *SURE* I heard that he had passed. Or maybe it was just that he was no longer Sheriff.
What I like is that they can them be sunk.
I’m thinking a 10k acre hog farm in the Nevada desert. Bad behavior? “Feed ‘em to the hogs!” (Brick Top reference)
I pray we have a plan to annihilate it if the politics there change.
65k man army with nothing to lose near our border.
Bad idea.
There are a number of examples of people being imprisoned in the Bible. But God never commanded or suggested it as a long-term strategy or means of punishment. It was always a pagan practice. Neither the liberal mindset of "criminals just need therapy" nor the false conservative "lock 'em up and throw away the key" ideas are consistent with Scripture when it comes to punishing criminals. Repentance and restitution should be the focus.
And what would that accomplish?
Folks,
There have been movies about this. Do we go to the movies and learn nothing?
Punishment for felony convictions.
Same deal for me. In Sarajevo. In November…..
It was quite comfortable.
If they are asleep how are they being punished?
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**Don’t give the Deep State any ideas. Neither the liberal mindset of “criminals just need therapy” nor the false conservative “lock ‘em up and throw away the key” ideas are consistent with Scripture when it comes to punishing criminals. Repentance and restitution should be the focus.**
Scripture and $2 will buy you a cup of coffee. Repentance works in Japan but not here. Think BJ(Monica).
**Medically induced coma until completion of the sentence.
And what would that accomplish?**
**If they are asleep how are they being punished?**
Simple. They’ll understand why they can’t just get up and walk away. Vasectomies they won’t have informed consent to.
When the Good Thief called out the other criminal for mocking Christ, saying Christ had done nothing to deserve crucifiction, Christ did not say "you didn't either".
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