New legislation limiting the credit given to prisoners for time served in custody before and during their trials will cost taxpayers $1 billion to implement and billions more to maintain, the parliamentary budget officer said Tuesday.
The construction of new correctional facilities alone will cost about $1.8 billion over five years, the PBO said in a report quantifying the implications of the Truth in Sentencing Act. A further $618 million will be needed annually for capital appropriations and operations and maintenance costs.
This is a ridiculous amount, don't you think? I originally thought what was the difference whether they spend time before or after the trial, as long as it all adds up to their total due.
But in reading the comments from this story, it seems that prisoners are credited 2 days for every day spent in prison pre-trail! What kind of idiot devised this plan? Their lawyers delay the trail again and again to get a smaller sentence for their criminals!
Build simple and secure new prisoners to get these people behind bars for their proper amount of time they get sentenced with. Have no entertainment facilities or the like, and feed them KD and baloney sandwiches. And make them do something worthwhile when they are in prison; I know that some prisoners make office furniture now (as we got some of it in my office before I got out) so make more programs like that.
I know it will cost a little more, but I would think many of these people end up on some kind of government assistance anyway, that pays for their smokes, booze, and drugs.
"DO THE CRIME - GET READY TO DO THE TIME"
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