Re: Penology (was Microsoft as Slave Master?)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 28 2002 - 19:03:00 MDT


Clinton Alexander wrote:
>
> [John Clark wrote]
> > I would place each prisoner in a sound-proof box the size of a large
> > apartment, and weld the door shut behind him.
>
> The size of a large apartment? Can you imagine what this would cost?
> Jails and prisons are already strapped for funding and privatization
> isn't profitable. Where are you going to get all this money for the
> building and management of these 'large apartments'?
>

The cost of prisons is primarily on the security systems and facilities
for security staff, the intricate gating systems needed to securely move
prisoners in and out of their cells, to eat, shower, work, etc. If a
prisoner instead was permanently kept in an apartment for the entire
term of his sentence, with food served via dumbwaiter and visitation
with family via closed circuit TV, it would be far cheaper to build such
a prison.



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