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SvennoJ on 26 June 2015
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fory77 said:
SvennoJ said:
fory77 said:

Now look at the wrongful conviction rate, and imagine yourself being tortured daily while innocent. Still sounds good?
What about the life of the torturer, seems like a sane job to torture people?

Wait a minute, FBI hires hackers to test security, prisons should employ sadists to torture serial killars. Brilliant.

Btw Gitmo costs 2.8 million per year per prisoner. But they do get tortured and rot in their cells.

The death penalty is pretty expensive too
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty
Each death penalty case in Texas costs taxpayers about $2.3 million. That is about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years.

Make prisons self sustaining, let the inmates work for their food and small comforts. And if it turns out to be better than your own shitty life, then why not let people in without having to commit a crime first. If it generates money instead of costing it, sign your freedom away and join prison life.

Fuck, that's right, i keep fogetting bold when i think and discuss stuff like this.

I still don't get how the death penalty is this expensive. Just get a knife and go full isis on them - alahu akber and all. Re-use knife to cut costs. End in oven.

This tbh: "FBI hires hackers to test security, prisons should employ sadists to torture serial killars. Brilliant."

It's so expensive since the justice system isn't fool proof. Apart from the higher initial cost, you can sit on death row for over 20 years while the appeals process drags on. The actual injection is only $100 or so.

DNA has proven 330 people wrongfully convicted so far, 20 of which on death row.
Since DNA evidence can only be used in 5% to 10% of cases, logic dictates that there are at least another 3300 to 6600 innocent people in jail without the chance of DNA clearing them, and possibly another 200 to 400 wrongful death penalties.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/free-innocent/improve-the-law/fact-sheets/dna-exonerations-nationwide
http://www.innocenceproject.org/faqs/how-many-innocent-people-are-there-in-prison

It's much worse actually. Estimates are between 2.3% and 5% wrongful convictions, that's anywhere up to 120 thousand innocent people in jail in the US right now... Or 1 in 2700 people in the US are wrongfully convicted.