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The average person isn’t being held in a cage against their will, explicitly a charge of society, ostensibly for the purpose of rehabilitation, and widely under
by eyelidlessness 6y ago
The average person isn’t being held in a cage against their will, explicitly a charge of society, ostensibly for the purpose of rehabilitation, and widely understood to be under heightened threat of violence.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoObviously, but 14x?
- eyelidlessness 6y agoOkay so I’ll ask again: > What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?
- dodobirdlord 6y agoProbably somewhere around $200,000/year as a high water mark. That works out to the average cost of maintaining one person, plus 2x the average household income, which seems like a good proxy for the fully-loaded cost of maintaining a full-time staff member and associated infrastructure. Economies of scale suggest to me that at scale it should be possible to support a ratio of staff:inmates that is less than 1:1.