• @[email protected]
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    110 months ago

    Is it humane to spend those resources on a prisoner instead of redirecting the funds to a social program? We’ve already decided we’re going to remove these people from society. The Internet says it costs about $100 a day to house a minimum security prisoner, or around $3k a month. That could feed 20 people for a month.

    • @MirthfulAlembic
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      1310 months ago

      It’s a lot more humane than killing them and later finding evidence that the conviction was a mistake. Unless you know a necromancer, keeping the most heinous offenders in prison for life is the most we can do.

      • @Fades
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        10 months ago

        I’m against capital punishment but you’re way off track here, missing the forest for the trees lol

        you act like every case could go either way at any time. There are many where their crimes are unquestionable. In that case, is nitrogen more humane than keeping them locked in a box until they die? Sucking up funds that could help actual innocent people in need? That is the point being made here

        • prole
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          410 months ago

          Once again: it is cheaper to house a prisoner for life than to execute one.

          • @[email protected]
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            -110 months ago

            It’s only cheaper because of the enormous costs and inefficiencies baked into our justice system. The costs of executing someone come down to court costs, not the tangible resources that the prisoner takes up.

            Funny enough, a lot of these appeals and investigations only cost so much and go on for so long because of the initial poor quality of police actions.

            It’s like being released after 20 years on DNA evidence that was never checked initially, or where someone was convicted of rape but never positively identified by the accuser. A procedural fuckup costs millions blown in court, prison, and settlement costs.

            • @Jagger2097
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              110 months ago

              So your argument is that we should make state sanctioned murder faster and have fewer appeals? Perhaps those low quality Police officers should just be empowered to… oh fuck we already did that

        • @Girru00
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          310 months ago

          Yeah… except the mistakes look like slam dunks. The very definition of a false positive.

    • prole
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      310 months ago

      It’s cheaper to house a prisoner for life than to execute one.

    • @Girru00
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      210 months ago

      Or you know… both?