Prison costs vastly exceed the cost of decent wages to prevent crime

Evidence

It costs 20,000 per year to put someone in prison, but that's not gonna help. What they need is jobs, and good jobs — a job at 6/hour only gets you $12,000/year. Why not just pay them the extra money, give them a well-paying job, instead of waiting till they have to go to jail and then having to spend almost twice as much for them to not do anything, in jail? — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 301

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: California prisons cost about $47,000 per inmate per year — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1151; Capital trials cost more than life imprisonment — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 658

Broader Connections

• California prisons cost about $47,000 per inmate per year #exemplifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1151
• Capital trials cost more than life imprisonment #exemplifies (0.80) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 658