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...criminals really had to pay for their crimes?_____________________________________________________
Case Study: Non violent criminal costs his victim $500,000 by committing fraud.
There are two choices:
- imprison
him to "teach him a lesson," create a dis-incentive to crime and make
him "pay his debt to society." This costs society another $500,000 for
a ten year term, does not repay the victims, does not support the
criminal's family, pay his bills or settle his obligations. Add in
those expenses and the cost of his crime is now well over a million
dollars, or
- Require him to work at his
highest potential for the state, pay him subsistence wages, repay his
victims with the lion's share of the money he earns.
Which option truly allows the criminal to pay his debt to society?Which
is a greater disincentive to crime? Ten years in a minimum security
prison with time off for good behavior, or as long as it takes living
on a welfare income in welfare housing working at a six-figure salary
until the debt is paid? With interest.
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