From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 15:27:48 MST
--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:56:37PM -0500, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> > >> Now, how much of your own money would you personally pay to feed
> > >> murderers in prisons? Are you going to support your high-minded
> > >> moral sentiments with cold, hard cash?
>
> The usual figure is that it's more expensive to kill someone (and
> deal with
> death row appeals) than to just leave them in jail for life.
Death row incarceration is only more expensive because death row
inmates are one to a cell, while lifers are two to a cell, and
infrastructure and operations costs in prisons are generally scaled on
a per cell basis, outside of food and laundry, etc which are
negligible. Death rowers are kept one to a cell so that they are less
at risk of being killed by a fellow inmate, reserving their death for
the just action of the state. If you eliminate this bias, lifers and
death rowers would cost the same.
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