Ariel Castro is dead!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I doubt it saves that much money. The state already spent tons on his defense. The cost to incarcerate a prisoner is usually computed by dividing the cost of the prison construction and maint. by the number of inmates. Those costs don't go down because one offs himself. His cell will be filled tomorrow and the giant prison industry won't skip a beat.

It can be looked at in terms of $/inmate-day but it's seldom looked at that way - I've worked on a couple of prison projects and it's usually just general capital funds that some politician or bureaucrat decides can be allocated for building a prison in order to curry favor with some group or another. Typically it's just $/sq. ft. like most other construction. I do agree with you though - there is a HUGE industry in this country that's built around incarceration (security, security, security - it's all anyone has to say to make the stingy beancounters open up their wallets and write bigger checks). Training, new equipment, new surveillance, higher operating budgets, larger staff, more lights and gizmos, etc. It all is justified in the name of security and is BIG money.

It's really an astonishing thing to have the chance to be involved with correctional work. Very interesting actually. Lots of challenges.

Prisons are HUGE energy consumers as well. Very, very difficult to get an efficient correctional facility.

[onlycafe]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Very, very difficult to get an efficient correctional facility.

unless you are sheriff joe.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

That's why I love the guy - he just does the job without using it as a mechanism to attempt to control ever-increasing piles of public money, unlike just about every other government official.

[911_Dude]

Originally Posted by Targa Me

Now, its pay back time !!

HA! Reminds me of the Hitler scene in Little Nicky.

[Laneco]

Ahh yes... The one where a rather large pineapple is inserted into someone's posterior.

angela

[flatbutt]

having never been inside....what is there to hang yourself from? the cell bars?

[emcon5]

Too bad he wasn't kneeling over a floor drain.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by 911_Dude

HA! Reminds me of the Hitler scene in Little Nicky.

Originally Posted by Laneco

Ahh yes... The one where a rather large pineapple is inserted into someone's posterior.

angela

That was exactly what I thought of. When he makes hitler (in a French maid's uniform) go pick his own pineapple, but it's too small. Hilarious stuff.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

That's why I love the guy - he just does the job without using it as a mechanism to attempt to control ever-increasing piles of public money, unlike just about every other government official.

Well.....not exactly.

But I agree with his method of managing the prison system, at any rate.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by Gogar

They found him hanging, they didn't see him hang himself. I saw a prison movie once and I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

That's better than the other way around.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Laneco

Ahh yes... The one where a rather large pineapple is inserted into someone's posterior.

angela

[jyl]

I actually have (had) no idea who this person was. My first thought was that one of Fidel Castro's sons had died, and I wondered why we were so gleeful about it.

[URY914]

[URY914]

[flyenby]

The trash has been taken out...a scumbag pervert...

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I doubt it saves that much money. The state already spent tons on his defense. The cost to incarcerate a prisoner is usually computed by dividing the cost of the prison construction and maint. by the number of inmates. Those costs don't go down because one offs himself. His cell will be filled tomorrow and the giant prison industry won't skip a beat.

Food, medical, and legal surely go down.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

...Prisons are HUGE energy consumers as well. Very, very difficult to get an efficient correctional facility.

Money could be saved by making these all underground facilities - tough to escape when your 500 below surface...heating and cooling cost would be minimal. There are plenty of old mines that could be converted.