How a society treats prisoners is a good indication of the leaders' morality. Treating all prisoners with human rights is important because allowing atrocities is a slippery slope. Brutalizing the rapist may feel right, but what if he was framed you just eliminated someone with dirt on a 1% villain?
Of course giving prisoners internet and basketball time is not the human rights I'm talking about- that's stupid. Prisons for profit, criminally stupid. What kind of leaders want to incentivize locking people away? Bernie Madoff stole $65 Billion, now he's living out his days in a luxury cell suite with internet and his personal chef. They call this prison because he can't leave the grounds, but all other comforts are buyable- this is legal because "the prison has to make money".
The USA did not have private prisons for 200 years, and one could make the argument that when they were legalized is when America started going down hill fast. The white collar criminals now had nothing to fear, so they started looting US bigger, better, faster.
Alaska prisons may not run on the for-profit model [unclear], but nationwide we need the same
Concrete Cell, Book - that's all th
ey get - no basketball, internet, group showers or luxury suites It's called deterrence and it costs nothing.
The building is already built- so the cost of housing each prisoner should only be food, electricity/heat & guards- $10/day is probably high.
In Alaska it costs $200/day or $74k/yr to house each prisoner
$202 dollars per day. However, this does not include medical care for chronic diseases, end-of-life, or emergency care. ACLU
Not as bad as California but still a policy written by and for Tards. Problem is that number does not include healthcare - Big pHarma is raking in the profits because we've decided all prisoners must get any meds or surgeries they want.
When Governor Mike Dunleavy showed us his budget, he showed us his priorities. In a proposed budget he provided to the Alaska Legislature at the end of 2023, he included $450.6 million to the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC)
Cut the meds and grift and save hundreds of millions which will be the prize money for schools and students.
Check the math here:
- 5k prisoners: $450 Million
- 131k students $1,800 Million
Does that seem right?
- $78k / prisoner
- $13k / student
Is this really what we want? Seems tarded to me 😜
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