5 Jun
2013
5 Jun
'13
1:17 a.m.
Craig Sanders wrote:
from my POV as one of the comfortable middle class, the cost of welfare is a bargain....the dole for a person is about a tenth of the cost of prison, and having relatively safe streets plus not having to turn my home into a fortress is priceless.
Incidentally, as someone who works in corrections, I note that Australian prisons seem to have a greater emphasis on reducing recidivism. That is, if a released inmate goes back into the system within (I think) three years, that is counted as a failure. A lot of the stuff I hear about US corrections is pretty horrifying -- like the recent case where a judge was caught taking kickbacks from a prison every time he gave a maximum sentence to a juvenile.
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+1