What's Up With That? #8: Houses for the unholy
Officials at San Quentin State Penitentiary want to spend $220 million on a new prison housing facility for California's 629 Death Row inmates.
$220 million for living quarters for people we're eventually going to put to death anyway?
Maybe we ought to spend that $220 million on people we'd like to keep around for awhile — say, on education and job training in impoverished neighborhoods. If we did, perhaps we'd eventually have fewer than 629 inmates on Death Row.
$220 million for living quarters for people we're eventually going to put to death anyway?
Maybe we ought to spend that $220 million on people we'd like to keep around for awhile — say, on education and job training in impoverished neighborhoods. If we did, perhaps we'd eventually have fewer than 629 inmates on Death Row.
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SwanShadow was randomly pounding the keyboard at 1:09 AM
1 insisted on sticking two cents in:
But saving money, lives, and taking the more difficult high moral ground won't match the sheer and barbaric thrill of executing legally declared criminals. Shame on you!
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