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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Wouldn't it be cheaper to build housing for the poorest people and give them access to counselling and training and also a place to store their stuff?
That way, you don't have to pay for the cages and the armed guards. And that poison for the criminals ain't free.
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Cheaper by orders of magnitude. Prisons are one of the most expensive places to construct, every screw, every piece of furniture is all custom designed just for prisons.
And that's not to mention that the cost of executing someone is FAR more then keeping that person in prison for life.
So, the rapist costs more to take care of under the proposed plan, and the homeless person costs the system far more as well.
Keeping the prisoners in prison and building proper low cost housing and services for the homeless would be FAR cheaper.