Comment by UncleEntity
Comment by UncleEntity 4 days ago
/me putting on my Law & Order hat
Why should the taxpayers be burdened by the results of his bad decisions?
/me takes off hat
Comment by UncleEntity 4 days ago
/me putting on my Law & Order hat
Why should the taxpayers be burdened by the results of his bad decisions?
/me takes off hat
It's not mutually exclusive.
Someone can both work towards rehabilitation and pay their 'debt to society'. If they earn over what it costs to house them in a Maine prison then, by all means, let them keep the excess earnings. If they earn $100k/year and the state pays them $1.35/hr then there are deeper institutional issues around prison labor exploitation which should be addressed.
I used to have an uncle who was constantly in and out of prison over drug-related issues and he would do all sorts of work programs just to break up the monotony. Ironically, none of these rehabilitation efforts did any good and what finally 'set him straight' was the Three Strikes Law.
Imprisoning someone is also a great harm. That harm should have a cost, so that it is not employed flippantly.
Because that's what a social community would do. But where you probably are, such an approach is falsely labeled as “communism” by MAGA anti-social assholes.
how does the taxpayer benefit from the inexistence of rehabilitation programs?