Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
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Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#2Love when the problem as stated contains its own solution.
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#3Love when the problem as stated contains its own solution.
You mean: send all the prisoners to Harvard, let them have education and well-paying job? :)
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#4Love when the problem as stated contains its own solution.
You mean: send all the prisoners to Harvard, let them have education and well-paying job? :)
Or send all Harvard business school students to prison? It's a bit more expensive on the short term, but will save money on the long term by reducing the economic damage they might do if free.
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean: send all the prisoners to Harvard, let them have education and well-paying job? :)
Or send all Harvard business school students to prison? It's a bit more expensive on the short term, but will save money on the long term by reducing the economic damage they might do if free.
har har har.
Or do you genuinely believe that just rounding up students of a university and throwing them in jail will improve the economy?
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or send all Harvard business school students to prison? It's a bit more expensive on the short term, but will save money on the long term by reducing the economic damage they might do if free.
har har har. Or do you genuinely believe that just rounding up students of a university and throwing them in jail will improve the economy?
or just MBA students?
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#7Love when the problem as stated contains its own solution.
I think it helps show the cost of crime and look at different solutions but I don't see how it contains the solution.
I had a car stolen by some guys once. They used my car to drive around breaking in to other cars and stealing things. The police caught them and took me to me car so that I could get it back. I also had to go through all the stuff in the back and tell the police what wasn't mine. It turns out they had been arrested in California.
California sent them to Arizona so that they could go to a trade school. All their needs were covered, they just needed to complete the program. Instead the failed out and then went on a crime spree in their new home state. I'm sure it was a very cost effective solution for CA but I'm not sure about society as a whole.
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#8Bizarre comparison!
Prisons need to safely and securely provide accommodation for "high-risk, high-need" human beings to survive and be rehabilitated.
Universities have a wholly different set of requirements.
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#9Does this include housing, food, healthcare, etc. for Harvard figure? Looks like not, so the comparison is kinda meaningless.
Also:
The price for each inmate has doubled since 2005, even as
court orders related to overcrowding have reduced the
population by about one-quarter. Salaries and benefits for
prison guards and medical providers drove much of the increase.
Re: Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
#10Another option is to put non-violent offenders in camps. The deal is if they stay in the camp and follow the rules, they can serve out their sentence there. Run away and they go to the real prisons.