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Originally Posted by CptnBlues63
Yeah when you figure in associated costs, it makes sense. Consider the wages of the people needed to watch over them. We don't need guards in our homes!
It's still not a great deal for those of us footing the bill 
Maybe an "open" prison right on the north pole.........no guards, supplies dropped from a plain every "X" number of days. That would reduce costs and I'm sure the local polar bears would enjoy helping out with the occasional escapee............  |
I think locking them in stocks at the local mall might have a better result and cost a lot less.
One week to one month sentences, with the crime clearly posted on a sign over the prisoner.
The thing is locking them in prison gives no incentive to change because no one outside the system knows who went to prison or why.
Knowing that all your neighbors know what you did is a powerful motive for change.
Of course it would only make sense for misdemeanor crimes. But they make up the majority of prison sentences.
And it would only work if people would give them every reasonable chance to prove they had changed.
It would also cut off the criminal to criminal schooling a prison facilitates.