Posted on 06/05/2017 9:40:07 AM PDT by TigerClaws
The cost of imprisoning each of California’s 130,000 inmates is expected to reach a record $75,560 in the next year
A guard watches prisoners being escorted across the yard at San Quentin State Prison. A guard watches prisoners being escorted across the yard at San Quentin State Prison. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) HOW MUCH? More than tuition at Harvard University
That’s enough to cover the annual cost of attending Harvard University and still have plenty left over for pizza and beer
Gov. Jerry Brown’s spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 includes a record $11.4 billion for the corrections department while also predicting that there will be 11,500 fewer inmates in four years because voters in November approved earlier releases for many inmates.
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Yeah but what about folks that have clean records and need a job
What’s the difference?
The questions is, then, which institution better prepares the attendee for life subsequent to the experience?
How many are illegal criminals?
We should charge their home countries for their cost.
I'd bet that the non-violent prisoners are relatively cheap to house, and the ultra violent ones are running up the costs.
This is the start of a good idea, suggested back in 2011 for Oregon, but only for illegals.
Expand it to all violent criminals in all states and you’re on to something:
http://www.blueoregon.com/2011/01/thinking-outside-box-dennis-richardson-style/
Yup
And route the known gang members to less expensive facilities. Locked shipping containers dumped overboard halfway to Anchorage.
My long-standing belief is that any one person should be “entitled” to 5 years in prison, maximum.
Shoplift? Maybe that’s one year.
Steal a car? Maybe that’s 4 years. Total for this person is now 5 years in prison.
Shoplift again? Death penalty. You don’t get to spend more than 5 years in prison. You just don’t.
Rape? That’s a big deal. Five years is too short for that. So — death penalty.
I’d like to see a lot more death penalty. A lot more.
They need to put pot in their commissaries mellow the population out
Having worked for 20+ years at one of Harvard Medical School's major teaching hospitals I'd wager that those students have a better command of English than does the typical California prisoner.
Apart from that I wouldn't dare comment.
Send them to Harvard.
It’s cheaper...............
I’m not going to say where I got the idea, but some of you will guess. I know a nation that didn’t even have prisons. If you committed a property crime, you paid back the property. If you stole a sheep and were caught in the act, you paid back one sheep. If you sold it, you paid back two. If you killed someone, you paid with your life. No prison time, no prisons.
WHAT are you Californians going to do to stop all this? I read where you have single payer insurance now, how are you going to financially support that? What about the ‘dam’ that was suppose to be fixed? Where’s the money for that? What about all the food stamps, free housing, free medical, free everything for the illegal aliens, what are you going to do about that?
Seems to me that those that are in office need to be removed and things re done...are you going to?
I suppose they have to figure in the costs of gender “reassignment” surgeries and follow-up HRT and “counseling”.
https://heatst.com/biz/gender-reassignment-cost/
yeah, but at Harvard you are exposed to a lot of unsavory characters.
No, a bill passed the Senate. There is no chance that bill will make into law, and it's very unlikely any single-payer bill will.
I’d suggest sending the prisoners to Harvard, but that might constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
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