– Let’s spend 100 million on education to make sure people can find a job.
– Nah, let’s spend 100 million on prisons to keep all those uneducated people who struggle to find a job!
“G” stands for “Imbeciles” in the"USA" word.
It’s an easy sell to the people supplying those jobs or their benefactors: If you educate people and give them jobs, the employers have to pay fair market rate for that labor. If you put them in prison, they can force them to work for pennies.
If you have ever spent any significant amount of time in Louisiana you’d understand why they might be running out of room in the current amount of prisons.
If you haven’t, sort by homicide.
First of all, we shouldn’t just talk about crime rates without acknowledging that the justice system that renders those verdicts is full of shit (arc)
Louisiana is a hotbed of wrongful conviction. It has the second highest rate of known wrongful convictions in the nation. New Orleans has the highest rate in the country among cities. There have been documented exonerations in 17 Louisiana parishes.
Secondly, whatever you think about the people of Louisiana, there’s no real basis for saying they’ve changed a whole bunch recently, but what has are their laws -
Two years after Louisiana overhauled its sentencing laws to lengthen prison stays, the corrections department says it needs another $82 million in state funds for its annual operating budget.
