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How much of your salary are you willing to pay to house violent criminals for the rest of their life? Let's not forget that someone else was also murdered too
by fridif 5y ago
How much of your salary are you willing to pay to house violent criminals for the rest of their life?
Let's not forget that someone else was also murdered too
- xxs 5y agoThe legal proceedings costs heavily outweigh the lifetime porridge
- eecc 5y agoshut up, miser. Besides, it’s well known that the CYA process for state murder is more expensive than keeping someone locked up for a lifetime. You’re just lusting for revenge, not justice
- mchusma 5y agoIn our current system, death penalty is more expensive than life in prison due to legal costs. Random source, I believe this is well accepted though. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/costs https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/costs
- washadjeffmad 5y agoThe idea that any person is immutably a "criminal" is as passe as the xenophobic belief that certain ethnic groups are innately violent, untrustworthy, or simpleminded. It's a failed ideology that justifies selective dehumanization. And conversely, how much value in contracted services performed by potentially wrongly incarcerated people performing un- or under-compensated labor are you willing to accept? If they're paying for the privilege of their own imprisonment, it should at least include rehabilitation.
- eplanit 5y agoI don't want to rehabilitate someone who violently murders people. If they took life cruelly, then losing the effective use of their own life is just.
- hedora 5y agoMore than I’m willing to pay to house innocent convicts, and to pay the salaries of the people that locked them up. Fixing those problems would save a lot more money than tweaking death penalty rates (in either direction).