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Re-thinking the cost of juvenile incarceration
Fri, 03/13/2009 - 13:12
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States around the nation are confronting massive budget deficits – but some corrections departments are the only state agencies whose budgets are actually increasing. Prisons hold a small but significant group of people convicted of crimes they committed as juveniles who have been sentenced to life without parole. As Melinda Tuhus reports, some lawmakers are asking what kind of policies not only protect the community, but are also cost-effective.
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Me too, I was quite shocked
Me too, I was quite shocked and a little saddened by the whole situation.
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this story freaked me out- the idea of locking kids up forever seems to me like a really mean and nasty thing to do. then listening to this report, talking about "cost effective" wanted to yell at my radio "COST EFFECTIVE! WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS?
SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE KIDS!" no one ever did. well one woman said it would be too bad if a 17 year old gets permanent jail time, cause then when he's 55 he is not the same any more. right. but he should not have been put away with no chance of parole in the first place. i see Mumia over there on my side screen. bet he wouldn't say cost effective. bet he'd agree with me too.
actually i wanted to call up charles dickens and tell him about this. he did not like workhouses or debtors prisons- what would he say about this? same a s me and Mumia- are these people totally crazy? what's wrong with them anyway?