(December 1, 2012 at 6:08 am)JohnDG Wrote: The average persons income in the U.S. is about 18-25k a year. Cost for every prisoner each year about 50-55k and prisons are over crowded and under staffed. Statistical anomaly or would america rather keep you in prison than give you a job?Exactly my friend! Incarceration is always expensive, and some of the USA's prisons are borderline 3rd-world conditions. However that said, think of developing countries and the state of their prisons - because they can't really afford it, their prisons can be extremely horrible.
Prisons are only one problem though, and having a lower unemployment rate, higher average incomes and most importantly less class divisions leads to much less crime in the first place.
