Posted on 09/28/2007 7:56:15 AM PDT by Politics4Fun
I still don’t understand why it costs so much to house an inmate.
Easy solution: Desert. Barbed Wire. Tents. Blankets. Bologna sandwiches.
There I just the cut the cost of PRK prisons by 50% and made it possible to expand ‘em quickly and indefinitely.
You have varying degrees of criminality in a prison. Get the better men to build a new prison within a triple fenced area. That will cut the costs.
I know many of people are hard-assed about prisons, but if these guys are going to be released back into society we can’t keep making them worse.
Thank the Drug Warriors for locking up people whose only “crime” was to ingest substances not sanctioned by the nanny state and providing a lucrative market to the criminal element.
So take a lesson from Sheriff Joe Arpaio and quit whining.
sounds like the premise for a new reality show:
We asked 5 inmates and 5 college sophomores to trade places for a week. Can the inmates make the grade? Can these ivy leaguers make it on the inside? Find out tonight on “going straight: the college years.”
Just put 'em all in a pen, and let them go at.
Major savings as numbers are reduced, AND, space for more of them to be brought in.
(Of course, with the ACLU and ambulance-chasers taking full advantage of an income opportunity, this method would not work in today's environment).
They’re both full of people who don’t like conservatives?.................
I have to agree. No matter how harsh we make our laws, the vast majority of crimes do not merit a life sentence which means the vast majority of convicts will eventually be back on the street. We should do what we can to ensure that when they do get out they’ll be able to stay out.
“Easy solution: Desert. Barbed Wire. Tents. Blankets. Bologna sandwiches. There I just the cut the cost of PRK prisons by 50% and made it possible to expand em quickly and indefinitely.”
Ah, you beat me to it.
Try ending the "War on drugs".....
Time to outsource the sentencing phase of our correctional system to the Chinese.
1) Let the inmates walk free
2) Pay the inmates to walk free and attend Harvard at no charge.
A conservative says "Easy solution: Desert. Barbed Wire. Tents. Blankets. Bologna sandwiches."
Well done!
I was going to suggest the same thing for the Harvard faculty.
I really don't have a problem with someone who's convicted of burgalry three times spending a lot of time behind bars. But I also thought about half of prisoners are there for drug related, or other moral turpitude related offences. For such offenders, what's wrong with a tent camp in the middle of the desert? It shouldn't cost more than Harvard or MIT.
It' not the state, it's liberal judges.
I know many of people are hard-assed about prisons, but if these guys are going to be released back into society we cant keep making them worse.
Sheriff Arpaio has a very low recidivism rate in his county. No one wants to return to his jail.
His prison is a success economically and keeping thugs out of his county.
Cutting the taxpayer costs of prison is simple:
1. Stop illegal immigration by enforcing the laws against persona nd business who hire them, house them, and provide them credit and banking. Pay for it all through confiscation of proeprty and fines.
2. Hang rapists, murderers, and thieves.
3. Stop the badly executed war on drugs. There are better ways to reduce drug use without jailing 1% of the population. Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol and it isn’t working for the other drugs.
4. Stop making crimes out of everything. We’re not all felons who just happen to not have been caught yet.
Nope big labor have written state law so that can't happen.
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