06-04-2015, 11:02 PM
(03-31-2011, 11:19 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: Murderers do get released/escape and commit more crimes.
You can't reoffend if you're dead.
I read recently that a SuperMax costs $75K a year per criminal and that the price is expected to double by 2020. So someone that gets there at 25 and lives to 75 will cost like $5 million bucks. Uncle Sam won't even spend $5M on a battered wife or a baby born with a physical deformity; but they will blow $5M on some dude who has been in and out of prisons or 15 years before finally getting thrown in a SuperMax. Prisons cost Americans $70 billion a year. Seems they need to do more executions and faster appeal processes from a financial perspective. They could make soylent green out of recidivist violent criminals for us to feed our dogs. Or would that be kind of weird?