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For different reasons to supporting a malign economy, I kind of agree with prison labour. It's not a subject I know too much about, but if I were in prison, I know I'd rather be doing 'something' other than staring at ceilings and avoiding man rape each day. I mean, why should tax payers have to pay so much to support a system the majority of whom spend their lives not wanting anything to do with?
Obviously, I'm not talking chain gangs - but I can't see how leaving someone to fester in the clink for x years is doing them or society as a whole any favours.
It just struck me a few weeks back when I watched a Louis Theroux programme on San Quentin - the annual budget was something ridiculous like $25/50 million dollars - that's .. well, rather a lot of money to spend on just having people rot.
If you do the crime - you should do the time.. and pay for it as well.
- yeah, give em a job and then when they actually do get out they would at least have some skill to build on and if they are going to eat they need to work.rtr