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Nnanji -> RE: American Criminal Justice System (10/1/2016 10:28:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
There is a reason that private firms have gotten into the prison business, and it has not one fucking thing to do with capitalism.
It has to do with the very simple and very real fact that prisons cost more to build for the state with no way to shed those costs over a large income base.
And since a state has to build a prison using tax revenues, pay staff using tax revenues, and with the growing crime rate nationwide and, unfortunately, the Federally mandated mandatory minimums, there are going to be a lot more people in prisons, citizens do not want to pay increased taxes to build new prisons for inmates.
As for the yearly cost of maintaining an inmate, consider this, under the law, inmates in state prisons are often living better than some folks on the outside.
$60,000 for a year is the complaint?
So I'm a druggie. Say I need $30,000 a year for rent, clothes and food. Say I need another $20,000 a year for my habit. How do I get it. I steal it. I fence it for...maybe...ten cents on the dollar. Just right there my $50,000 a year costs society $500,000 a year and that doesn't include the stuff I break in order to get to the stuff I steal. I'd say $60,000 a year to prevent a societal loss of $500,000 is a good bargain.
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