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Do we? Prison is expensive in the United States: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-per-prisoner-in-us-states/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-per-pri

• ivape 1y ago
  We'd obviously want to model it around something like Arkansas. Remember, prison provides reasonable security, food, and clothing. Security will generally be better since regular people are not self-selected for criminality, and those savings can be moved over to improved food. Re-using the prison model for extreme low income and homelessness is not intuitive - but so be it (sometimes you have to use an anti-pattern). Edit: $100k/prisoner/year That's crazy. Regular people don't live on that yearly.
  • thewebguyd 1y ago
    > That's crazy. Regular people don't live on that yearly. Yeah, there's either some severe inefficiencies there (or a ton of budget pork going to the wrong things), or it's a canary in the coal mine telling us that people actually should be making at least that much to live, and the fact that they aren't is a big problem, if not the main source of our societal problems.
• kyralis 1y ago
  How much of that is surrounding infrastructure and overhead (guards, security, etc) that don't apply? Plus that includes all meals, medical care, instruction, and other resources in many cases.