David Seymour admitted that having 10,000 people in prison, costs the public $7 per week for every man, woman, and child in the country. That's a lot to spend.
Especially when it's well known that people who spend time in prison are more likely to reoffend, and to commit more serious crimes when they do, than when the criminal justice system responds in other ways (eg restorative justice).
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/09/21/being-tough-on-crime-is-easy-but-doesnt-work.html
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#Election2023 #ACT #LawAndOrder #prisons
So logically, the party of liberty and limited government must see this as a problem to solved by funding non-prison responses, right?
"ACT will increase the prison population"
https://www.act.org.nz/act_will_increase_the_prison_population
Oh.
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@58db300d
Awaiting the tenders for private prisons to go up. Imagine if that $1.06 a day went to investors...
@4dfae064
> Awaiting the tenders for private prisons to go up
It's the only logical reason for wanting prison numbers to go up. A party of real libertarians would want imprisoning people to be a cost to the state - a serious one - so they're discouraged from doing it unless there's a very good reason.
@4dfae064
> Awaiting the tenders for private prisons to go up
It's the only logical reason for wanting prison numbers to go up.
A party of real libertarians would want imprisoning people to be a cost to the state - a serious one - so they're discouraged from doing it unless there's a very good reason.
@4dfae064
... and only until we achieve a democratic economic system that doesn't suppress free enterprise in the interests of capitalists. So prisons can be abolished, along with the state.
@58db300d A week ago he reckoned $1 per person cost.
@aa4134f5
> A week ago he reckoned $1 per person cost
That was the figure gave in the debate per *day*. I've done a Luxon and given the figure over a longer period of time, to make it look more impressive ; )
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