Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

Re:Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what woul... by RheingoldRiver on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:13AM (#37237312)

> but we'd have to spend a lot more tax dollars on prisoners to actually rehabilitate anything. That's politically pretty unappealing

I don't have a source for this but I thought the opposite was true? That the general consensus was we'd end up spending less because the recidivism rate would go down?

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Re:Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what woul... by lolinder on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:18AM (#37237397)

I think they mean more per prisoner per year, which is immediately measurable. It'd be done in the hope that total costs would go down over decades, but in our current political climate it's hard to sell improvements that take decades to manifest.

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