Secret Squirrel has pondered the vast expense of the prison system
with respect to many of the so called smaller crimes, versus the violent
ones, and has come to the conclusion that we should make crime pay as
it were to reduce the costs of the prison system and system of
incarceration on the tax payer. It would and could work, and in the
worst we would come out at a cost which equals incarceration, without
actual incarceration. All round there would be vast benefits you see.
Consider
things as they are with respect to salary, the dole(welfare payouts),
and the cost of incarceration of those who have committed crimes(here
considering the non violent crimes at best, we would still be
incarcerating and keeping those of violent natures and crimes in Her
Majestie's Prisons For The Extremely Naughty.).
Now it has been noted that there was and is a rapid growth of the US
penal population over the last two decades that has coincided with a
decline in the number of welfare recipients,in short the welfare
recipients are finding their way in to the prisons,where conditions of
living and their general quality of life are better than living on the
dole,over there at any rate.Of course this means that those on the dole,
the wlefare system as it were, have been committing crimes rather tahn
sitting contentedly at home collecting the meaghre and inadequate US
payout. BUT, let's look at the US dole payout, t'is merely,only,solely
(or soulessly....)...In the USA ,in 9 states welfare pays more than the
average first-year salary for a teacher,the rest however don't.
Now consider the costs to house prisoners in Britain.The cost to
house in reception center is $92.60 per day....say 100$, be 3000 per
month $36000 per year.........The estimated cost for a UK prison place
is usually quoted at something like £37,500 per year. So this works out
at £102.74 per day. So this being the actual cost per se,et all...why
not just pay them that per day/per year say that's
roughly 32000$ per year for them NOT to commit crime.........come to the
same thing wouldn't it then, eh whot! I should say so.The average
salary per year in England is 26000pounds.On the dole however,they
collect £30,899 before tax, while many workers can only aspire to an
average wage of £23,422(which at US dollar equal rate, would be the same
as the average Italian wage,surprisingly).....now the incentive NOT to
commit crime would be evn more.Who's to object to that
eh?Consider.....Britain's benefits bonanza has been laid bare as it
emerged 100,000 households rake in more than the average wage in welfare
every year.It IS affordable you know, what with that stated figure
being spent on each prisoner each year anyway I should say.The Americans
can hardly object,In 9 states welfare pays more than the average
first-year salary for a teacher.
So in effect we would be employing criminals to basicly live at
home,employing them as government employees doing nothing, much as
politicans for that matter,being paid to do nothing,and so many prisons
would become unnecessary,or,indeed freed up for the hardened violent
criminals which the
Judges state simply aren't able to house so THEY are set free to commit yet more violent crimes.
Why does Britain bear such costs of incarceration? Well that's because
Britain prosecutes certain of the more petty crimes,versus other nations
which do not. Consider Holland with respect to the smaller drug crimes
which Britain will and does prosecute.In Holland its capital is
notorious among stoners and college kids for marijuana haze–filled
"coffee shops," Holland has never actually legalized
cannabis — the Dutch simply don't enforce their laws against the shops.
Other countries have lowered their crime rates by simply decriminalizing
crime,such as in Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European
country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal
possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and
methamphetamine.However, Britain does not, it incarcerates.....so pay'em
NOT to do drugs etc by paying them what they coswt to incarcerate for
doing that very thing! Makes sense it does doesn't it!!
Of
course, there is the problem that they'd then commit crimes to get the
pay out you know. Indeed we'd have the French,Spainyards, and Italians
flocking to Britain to commit the crimes so that they could get the
payout. Eye there's the rub.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,MP(Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
