We should also reinstitute debtors prisons too!
(pardon me, but rhetorical questions are replied to with equal sarcasm)
Sheriff Joe would not continually get re-elected if the pay for your room and board system were not heartily endorsed by the voters. Obviously, it works!
It's prison fercryinoutloud, not a freakin spa at tax payers expense. As it is now, society pays when were victims of crime, then pays again for the room and board. Pathetic!