Give them longer sentences then, if being cost-effective is the big concern.
Why should a prison be cost effective?
This is like when corporate American news refer to how much their public postal system has ‘lost’ but their army never loses money it just costs that much.
Private prisons are just not acceptable no matter how much the tabloids try to convince us that we need or want them.
> Spending €80,000 imprisoning a person for a year, or for other short periods, was not effective as very little could be done to rehabilitate them, the director general of the Irish Prison Service, Caron McCaffrey, has said.
‘Cost effective’ is only part of what they’re saying
The Irish Times published an editorial a few months ago condemning the lack or transparency and the poor conditions in the Irish prison system. Would it be too much to ask of the journalist who wrote the piece to add a bit of context to the article, rather than just acting as a stenographer for the Prison Officers’ Association? I don’t understand why Irish journalism is so fucking lazy sometimes.
Prison is not ONLY about rehabilitation.
Part of its purpose is punishment and deterrence.
Of course it will cost money. 🙄
Maybe we could change the conditions in our society that lead to low value/petty crime.
Jail is not cost effective period
Thieves shouldn’t be put in jail they should be put to work replacing the things they stole.
People who do drugs really shouldn’t be in jail, its a crime against oneself and its far more cost effective to educate and provide addiction treatment.
People who should be in jail are those that would do harm to others, then its not a matter of being cost effective but its to take people out of society that would do harm to people its about protection in that case.
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Give them longer sentences then, if being cost-effective is the big concern.
Why should a prison be cost effective?
This is like when corporate American news refer to how much their public postal system has ‘lost’ but their army never loses money it just costs that much.
Private prisons are just not acceptable no matter how much the tabloids try to convince us that we need or want them.
> Spending €80,000 imprisoning a person for a year, or for other short periods, was not effective as very little could be done to rehabilitate them, the director general of the Irish Prison Service, Caron McCaffrey, has said.
‘Cost effective’ is only part of what they’re saying
The Irish Times published an editorial a few months ago condemning the lack or transparency and the poor conditions in the Irish prison system. Would it be too much to ask of the journalist who wrote the piece to add a bit of context to the article, rather than just acting as a stenographer for the Prison Officers’ Association? I don’t understand why Irish journalism is so fucking lazy sometimes.
Prison is not ONLY about rehabilitation.
Part of its purpose is punishment and deterrence.
Of course it will cost money. 🙄
Maybe we could change the conditions in our society that lead to low value/petty crime.
Jail is not cost effective period
Thieves shouldn’t be put in jail they should be put to work replacing the things they stole.
People who do drugs really shouldn’t be in jail, its a crime against oneself and its far more cost effective to educate and provide addiction treatment.
People who should be in jail are those that would do harm to others, then its not a matter of being cost effective but its to take people out of society that would do harm to people its about protection in that case.