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dlk

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3. Comparing the cost of incarceration to cash payments

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2024, 10:44 AM

Jan 2024

Is a no brainer. Billions and billions of taxpayer dollars could be saved redirected to schools, infrastructure projects, and so forth, if we stopped locking up too many people for every little thing.

Private prisons have become big business in America and that speaks volumes about our values.

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Austin experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. They spent the no-strings-attached cash mostly on housing, a stud [View all] Eugene Jan 2024 OP

Instead of jailing or institutionalizing people thucythucy Jan 2024 #1

This would also be cheaper. viva la Jan 2024 #2

Absolutely! thucythucy Jan 2024 #13

Comparing the cost of incarceration to cash payments dlk Jan 2024 #3

KnR Alice Kramden Jan 2024 #4

But OMG, that would be akin to Soshulism!! llmart Jan 2024 #6

The Problem Kid Berwyn Jan 2024 #5

Good old BFEE: still fighting the bad fight. dchill Jan 2024 #7

What is BFEE? Goggle says Bush Family Evil Empire? efhmc Jan 2024 #11

That's it. dchill Jan 2024 #14

I would imagine that we've seen only the first inklings . . . Richard D Jan 2024 #8

Every time this is tried, it works well. Then the politicians ignore it. n/t malthaussen Jan 2024 #9

If you're not punishing society's most vulnerable, are you even capitalisming? Orrex Jan 2024 #10

The ONLY way this works, and I wish it would happen, Fix The Stupid Jan 2024 #12

I don't think any heads here would explode. thucythucy Jan 2024 #16

LOL, Monday morning BC (before coffee), reading OP's title, "Wait, wasn't that Yang's experiment, not Lloyd Austin's? Backseat Driver Jan 2024 #15

If they'd spent the money on MSSAs, that'd be cool with the Cons. maxsolomon Jan 2024 #17