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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight
I'll admit I know very little on this topic both from a lack of personal experience and in depth research. However, I do know there is no shortage of statistics that illuminate the extravagant cost of incarceration and that prisons breed better criminals rather than rehabilitate them. I don't know that it is as simple as throwing more people into prison for longer. I could imagine a bloated prison population might cost so much as to steal away the funding earmarked for the homeless and mentally unwell populations that you mentioned.
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We only have to look to the US to see how good the plan to "lock up the druggies" works.