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The overhead for building and ruining our jail and prisons is increasingly expensive. Should the inmates be forced to work in order to cover the costs or should the taxpayer be required the shoulder expenses?
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according to fiction tv they make license plates? but yeh. they don't just get "minimum old free bread. and cooked vegetables" . they need to 'sing' for their supper. i don't mean cracking rocks.
that is inappropriate in west. but the prisoners should be doing some of the jobs inside. like washing tables and floor of food hall. serving the food and other jobs if not risky. risky like "if i was a prisoner give me the keys to the cells so i can wash all the floors inside all the cells".
productive jobs like making license plates and other products in prison. if not then, lose luxury food and tv and most health care (except emergency until stablise).
If private companies no longer run prisons, sure. Otherwise you’re literally talking about slavery for the profit of those private companies. At which point rehabilitation is out of the question. Why would any company let a prisoner go free when they’re getting rich? Every sentence would become a life sentence. Then we need even more prisons and suddenly jaywalking is a felony. The entire nation becomes a penal colony for profit.
You just described the rapidly approaching digital future if the planet
I like this premise, for a short story 👌🏼
It's going to be considered unjust, double penalty issue. Because community service is already a legal penalty that replaces jail time. Also, supervising inmates costs money, someone has to be paid to monitor them, whether they're working or not. Plus that labour cannot be just labour in order to fund the whole operation, it has to be work that actually produces enough money...
I'm sure renting a machine for collecting cotton (or whatever those guys did) is cheaper than transport and guarding.
In most cases is prisoners work economically not feasible. There are some niche jobs like making transport pallets or mounting together some parts but most jobs nowadays demand educated specialists.
In the olden days the prisoners did work. They used to make license plates.
There must be a good reason why they don't have them working. It could be that there are so many now that it's too hard to control them from escaping.
I'm sure there's a budget for them.
Yeap or pay per view executions. Think people won't pay $25 to watch a child molester, rapist or murderer fight to the death in an arena? Shit, just 100 doing so will net the prison 25 grand. But of a nation of over 300,000,000? Prison will end up rich af
... Reminds me of a scene in a comic book where candidates for suicide are offered money in exchange for audience it generates
This early 1980s comic book even predates the rise of reality shows, as well as the more recent user generated reality show trend lol
Absolutely! They should be worked enough to cover their own cost plus extra.
No. If you want to maintain a system that marginalizes people to the point where they are willing to commit desperate acts, then you need to pay for the consequences of it.
I see nothing wrong with them working off their sentence.
How 'bout ending Esq. James Crow, aka mass incarceration?
I see no problem with it.
They already do