11/15/2005

Escape Convicts

I was reading this article about the two men who escaped from the Iowa State Penitentiary. I can’t believe that our penitentiaries are not more secure. This is the second prison break in the last month. There are killers out on the loose! I just don’t understand why we pay so much money to pay for these facilities and they are not functioning effectively. I think that it would be cheaper and more effective in the long run to build more rehabilitation centers and try to clean these people up than to lock them up like animals. So many people come out of prison worse off than when they entered. What do you think?
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Dr. Tufte said...

-1 on Taylor's post for poor grammar.

I'm not so sure this tells us anything about how the money is being spent. After all, it's the prisoner's "job" to escape.

With respect to Alex's comment, people who work in prison's are not in favor of life sentences either - it eliminates hope that can help give them the incentive they need to clean up their act.

There actually is a large economics literature on crime, and it strongly supports the notion that the deterrent effect of incarcertaion is important.

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