I agree. With the financial meltdown, things need to change. We can’t afford to keep these people locked up for life. What’s it cost, about $30,000 to $40,000 per year per inmate. This is one of those unseen gov’t costs, like education, that is just too costly.
parsy, who thinks there should be a lot more executions and for a lot more things
Actually, the average cost, per annum, to house and feed an inmate is well over $80,000.
63 years of lockup times $40,000 per
=
2.4 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, I wonder what we, or any sensible country, could do with 2.4 million?
Something good for its citizens?
Or a turtle tunnel, on a highway where no crushed dead turtles are ever seen (as per FR post a week or so ago by someone who drives there everyday!)
Tens of years waiting on death row.
Isn’t this, of itself, kinda cruel and unusual punishment.
So there is no point in sentencing them is there?
(Not all this to you parsifal, etc., just had to type it all out quickly before my brain forgot).