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I saw someone suggest on Reddit, "What if after someone is released from prison, we paid the prison a bonus every year they go without being convicted of a crim

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• vidarh 9y ago
  Until some prison warden decides to cripple as many prisoners as possible to ensure they can't reoffend.
  • VikingCoder 9y ago
    That would be illegal. And they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
• KekDemaga 9y ago
  What is "the prison"? A state run organization? In that case why would some bureaucrat care if his budget goes up, he's a union member most likely thus his pay is more related to time employed than the budget being fiscally sound. Now consider this is a private prison, why would they ever not release someone? Releasing someone lowers their costs and may provide a reward, on the other hand they have to continue to pay for a prisoners upkeep and have no chance at a reward if they vote for him to stay. This is all moot because it isn't prisons that decide who gets to go free but a parole board. That's part of a judicial process typically unaffiliated from the prison itself.
  • VikingCoder 9y ago
    In the United States, many prisons are private, for-profit enterprises. They're the ones I'm talking about. It's not up to a private prison WHEN they release someone. It's up to them how they are treated while they are IN the prison. If they are offered classes, job training, mental health care, support groups, etc. Or if they're brutalized in an uncaring institution, and released worse off than when they came in. Sorry I didn't explain myself well.