Our system is fucked up, but at the same time who and why is feeding someone for a lifetime scott-free? All prisons have labor as a backbone besides, was it Switzerland or Norway?
The problem with forcing prisoners to fund their own punishment is that it makes incarceration easier. If you are not even willing to pay the full expenses of taking away someone’s freedom, how can I believe that you have fully taken into account the full weight of taking away someone’s freedom before doing it? And if you take it a step farther, and actually turn profit from said imprisonment - I cannot trust your claims that it’s justified.
Our system is fucked up, but at the same time who and why is feeding someone for a lifetime scott-free? All prisons have labor as a backbone besides, was it Switzerland or Norway?
The problem with forcing prisoners to fund their own punishment is that it makes incarceration easier. If you are not even willing to pay the full expenses of taking away someone’s freedom, how can I believe that you have fully taken into account the full weight of taking away someone’s freedom before doing it? And if you take it a step farther, and actually turn profit from said imprisonment - I cannot trust your claims that it’s justified.
The problem is that the labor is not always for things like public works or self sufficiency.
Of course not. Prisons aren’t entirely tax-funded.
That’s the problem. The state shouldn’t have a profit motive when it comes to incarcerating humans.
In fact, prisons being expensive is a very good motive to find better ways of handling rehabilitation than locking people in cages.
Agreed, but nothing will be done about it.