Outsourcing offenders (Literally)
Criminal justice in many countries is designed on the presumption that the prime objective is rehabilitation into society. Not punishment, not restitution, and most law abiding citizens are happy to provide a second or maybe a third chance. (Look at the 3 strikes and out system employed in many states f the US) But hey, the repeat offenders are not going to rehabilitate, and we all know it. So they just need to be taken out of circulation where they can no longer cause the public at large any more problems.
Outsourcing is a model that you can procure cheaper services or labour outside your home market thus making your business more competitive, so how bout the strategic outsourcing of repeat offenders.
Long-term criminals cost approx $90 - 120k per year to hold. Also they can be a danger to, and/or an impediment to, the successful rehabilitation of less serious criminals by housing them in the same cells.
The incarceration rates in most developed countries are rising, as is the building of new prisons to accommodate this increase, which can be approx the same build cost as a Hi- Tech school or Hospital, and I know which I would prefer to see more being built.
posted by Glen Stidolph in Outsourcing | 0 Comments
