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.
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.
I’d suggest sending the prisoners to Harvard, but that might constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Maybe we shouldn’t pay for TV, gyms, sex change operations and other “needs”.
How about giving them an outdoor cage, a bowl of slop every day, and opportunity to “work” and rent a nicer room/cell, buy food, TV, access to a gym, etc? We don’t want “work” to eliminate outside jobs. But I’d bet an entrepreneur can find something for him/herself to make money while the prisoner does something productive AND develops a work ethic.
And base the sentence on the amount of money they save doing their “job” rather than time in the cage. They get out when they’ve shown they are able to work and manage money.
Elon Musk made his fortune taking government money (though not directly). This seems like a perfect opportunity for someone like him.
http://gawker.com/5797381/spoiled-california-prison-guards-have-it-easy
Instead of paying $100,000’s to go to college, California pays guards $3050 a month to attend their academy for 4 months.
When you graduate, your salary will between $45k-$65k, but make $100k+ with overtime.
Long generous vacations and health and pension plans that you couldn’t dream of.
Public employee unions will be the death of CA.
If you don't spend the 75k on prison you get more murder, rape, robberies, etc