[ POLL ] Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Average per inmate cost 2020 ....

New York $69,355
California $64,642
Connecticut* $62,159
New Jersey $61,603
Rhode Island* $58,564
Vermont* $57,615
Massachusetts $55,170

Chart (year 2017)

time for an emotional speech-
"Either we are the most evil people on earth or we are doing something very wrong. Whichever way your thinking goes you can see something is wrong here: we imprison nearly 5 times the world's average here! In God's name how can we lock up 5 times more than other nations? We pride ourselves in our vote to get things done right in America. And yet, the dictator of North Korea, who can have a man and his whole family executed with one word, does not allow his citizens to vote and still their prison system is nowhere close to locking up the percentage of people we do. How can this be?" [Sen. Jim Webb]

INDEED. if we can send a man to the blinkin' moon, why can't we fix things like THIS? why don't more people care and demand better from their leaders? if we can give BILLIONS upon BILLIONS to the top 1%, we can spend a tiny fraction of that and fix this.

Places like this need to be shut down.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.co ... index.html