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Opposite opinion: Who will pay for their lifetime detention. The annual cost per prisoner is over 200K a year to society. I say we execute the criminals if they can't pay for their cost. Also now...

Guy Swann @TheGuySwann 1723399372

Maybe this is more a problem with the horrific inefficiency of the prison system? Again, a problem of state incompetence. Just because it’s gonna cost a lot isn’t an excuse to potentially murder innocent people.

The justification that “sure some of them might be innocent, but think what it costs to keep them alive” just doesn’t seem like a good one, imo

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Vic · 88w

Maybe a better alternative is actually the other direction... e.g. Maximum Penalty, for any crime, being something relatively short, like 5 years. No stacking offenses, no for life, double life without possibility of parole etc. This has the side benefit of providing a mechanism for vigilantes to e...

21East · 88w

I thought it’s not the State that decides, but a jury of citizens? Plus what of those who plead guilty? Lets do this: all prisoners, regardless of sentence, should be put to work to both repay their debt to fellow citizens plus ensure others are not forced to pay for their existence. Those that pl...

TeslaLiberty · 88w

I get it. So people like you would donate to 'prison charities' to pay for criminal prisons. My family won't be paying for that. * In a bitcoin world where forced taxation is very difficult to implement and voluntary taxation is the only way governments survive*