Shouldn't people n prison need to pay back for the money spent housing them?

Question

After all it's an average 300,000 a year the government takes for each one of them! What a joke that is

Answer 1

It is a joke, and yes they should have to pay it back. I think we should just get an island somewhere and dump them all there. For the murderers & rapists anyway...if they can't survive, tough S$hit.

Answer 2

Well, it would take most them a lifetime to pay that kind of money back. Almost all of them would need to get out and start committing crime just to start to be able to make payments on something like that.

What probably should happen is that the government re-evaluate its laws and what kind of offenses should result in prison time. That will reduce the number of people in prison and help keep the costs down.

Answer 3

Yeah they did ask to be put in prison cause they did a crime knowing it was wrong.

I think prison should be prison. I don't think it should have or allow cable or Internet. There's a lot of money right there. I also don't think they should be eating better than low income families as in steaks.

If prison was like how it should be there wouldn't be repeat offenders.


I would prefer my tax dollars go to help the elderly on fixed incomes, to the state foster care system to have more social workers with less of a case load so those kids don't fall through the cracks, Better assistance for low income families, and better medical insurance for those that are paying taxes.
For better after school programs and lower taxes on food.

But then again that's just what seems more important to me than if some rapists or killer gets to eat a steak dinner while scrolling through porn on the net.

And yes I have had relatives sit in prison my grandfather died in prison. He knew what he was doing and that it was wrong and he didn't contest going to prison or try and find a way out of it. We loved him because he was our grandfather but we loved him more because he was a man and took the punishment for his crime.

Answer 4

Um.

That's 30,000 a year, not 300,000 a year.

But I do agree. There is a guy in Arizona that runs a prison that should be the model for all of them. It has fences like a normal prison, but the prisoners all live in tents. They eat baloney sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The inmates do road work and other hard labor.

Now that would be a f**king deterrent to crime.

Answer 5

And just how are we gonna collect? The average person just getting out of prison will be unemployed for quite a while or will have just minimum wage jobs. Its a joke to think we could collect that money in the first place since we dont allow or make them work for a decent wage while in jail.

Answer 6

How many of those people do you think can actually afford to pay the government back without resorting to crime when they get out? If you want them to be constructive members of society upon their release, saddling them with crushing debt that they can never hope to pay off is not the way to do it.

Answer 7

Yes of course they should pay. They commited the crime that put them in prision. I know in the county that I live in, the jail charges inmates $17 per day for being in the prision. And if they can't pay, they will turn them over to collections and could face more jail time for not paying.

Answer 8

incarcerating people is a money-makin business ever since the War on Drugs was declared!!!

its the people doing the incarcerating that are makin all the money!!!

of course thats just my opinion!!!

Answer 9

No , they didn't ask to be put in prison. Why should they pay for something they didn't want. Maybe you should stop putting peacefull pot smoking hippies in jail.

Answer 10

i guess you have never had a loved one in prison.
they do have to pay to be locked up. they have to buy their uniforms, personal items, soap toothpaste, shampoo, ect.
shoes. extra food.
don't blame the inmates for what the government does.