>Those resources don't _belong_ to society. They belong to the individual. >Currently it costs an average of $52.61 per day ($19,202.65 per year) to keep an ad

>Those resources don't _belong_ to society. They belong to the individual. >Currently it costs an average of $52.61 per day ($19,202.65 per year) to keep an adult inmate incarcerated in the State of Indiana . https://faqs.in.gov/hc/en-us/articles/115005238288-How-much-does-it-cost-to-keep-an-offender-in-prison- https://faqs.in.gov/hc/en-us/articles/115005238288-How-much-... >SUMMARY: The fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates in Fiscal Year 2015 was $31,977.65 ($87.61 per day). (Please note: There were 365 days in FY 2015.) The average annual cost to confine an inmate in a Residential Re-entry Center for Fiscal Year 2015 was $26,082.90 ($71.46 per day) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/07/19/2016-17040/annual-determination-of-average-cost-of-incarceration https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/07/19/2016-17... Households in Indiana have a median annual income of $55,746, the national median annual income is $61,937. Federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour, or $15,080 annually. That doesn't even cover 1 inmate. Where do you think the money comes to fund those prisons? Taxation of everyone which is definitely society and not an individual.