(03-14-2013 07:58 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: (03-14-2013 07:31 AM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: (03-14-2013 07:25 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: (03-14-2013 07:11 AM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: My problem isn't with incarcerating these people for good, it's the fact that the taxpayer has to pay for them for the rest of their lives.
Just find an island no-one likes, and if someone is convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt, send them there to live their life.
But so is killing them, and that makes every tax payer a murderer.
Yep, totally agree. Capital punishment isn't the way to go. A lot of people have been executed, only to be found innocent at a later time.
Labour is also an option to make lifers cost-effective - Make them manufacture stuff so that the money we spend on them goes back into society.
It wouldn't work. It's incedibly looked down upon (stuff here) and QI video here
There is a huge controversy over having prisoners manufacture ...anything, to the points it's compared to as "slave labour". Corporations, big business, the military, government (etc) all benefit from "prison slavery". I don't want to go too far off-topic and while it does seem ideal, it really isn't. Plus, suddenly finding out that your computer was built by someone who killed 12 people doesn't sound good for that company.
Regardless, we're paying for their still being alive. If nothing else, they could possibly earn a shorter sentence depending on the severity of their crime. No murderers or anything but still...
