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Originally Posted by Superman
It would seem that, as expensive as incarceration is, treatment is cheaper. Particularly when you consider the social costs (like theft, shoplifting, ruining retail centers).
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I've read prisoners cost $25-50K per year, add in law enforcement and legal, so yeah that sounds like a fair assessment.
The big numbers would explain all.
But there should also be a way to dis-incentivize the prison party loop.
The foxes run the hen house now.
Prisoners should have to earn their tv and jello (anonymous 3rd party rater), cameras everywhere to eliminate the gang work, more instant punitive measures like stun ankle bracelets, and put them to work until they are worn out like the rest of us.
Some are purely irredeemable and just need to live in solitary the rest of their lives or just be put under for the good of society.
The others need to get onto a rehabilitation program to fix whatever got them there in the first place.