SCOTUS Reject Dylan Roof Appeal

[Dayton3]

How's 182 $Billion sound?

Cost of imprisonment in the U.S. - Bing

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That alone proves nothing about it being "profitable". What if the costs are 181.9 billion?

 

[Woodznutz]

That alone proves nothing about it being "profitable". What if the costs are 181.9 billion?

All costs are expressed as wages. One man's cost is another man's paycheck. It's a net gain for those who work in the prison system, a net loss for those whose taxes pay the costs. The whole prison system generates $182 billion in revenues expressed as paychecks. Incarceration of offenders is a service that the public buys, at great profit to the producers of that service.

 

[Dayton3]

Incarceration of offenders is a service that the public buys, at great profit to the producers of that service.

You've provided no evidence let alone "proof" of that claim.

 

[Delldude]

That is 'cruel and unusual' punishment. Death is closure for everyone.

The criminal act would be cruel and unusual punishment for the vic.