If housing is that high, it's because there's corruption somewhere. You put up a prison building and it should stand for 50 years with not that much maintenance. Housing should be the lowest cost of all.
> 4.4-to-1
That's absurd! Only the most hard to handle convicts would need such a ratio. Easily fixed by separating prisoners into different prisons based on the crime, likelihood of violence, medical conditions, etc.
These are all costs that could be easily reduced if the US wasn't so corrupt.
>If housing is that high, it's because there's corruption somewhere. You put up a prison building and it should stand for 50 years with not that much maintenance. Housing should be the lowest cost of all.
Building a prison isn't the same as building a bunch of suburban houses with white picket fences. It has to be secure from breakout attempts. Since it's a self-contained facility you also need to build the support structures (eg. dining hall, rec area, admin offices, etc.) as well.
>Easily fixed by separating prisoners into different prisons based on the crime, likelihood of violence, medical conditions, etc.
They already do that. Ever heard of maximum/medium/low security prisons?
>These are all costs that could be easily reduced if the US wasn't so corrupt.
Can you present some figures here, other than just blindly asserting that it must be corruption?
If housing is that high, it's because there's corruption somewhere. You put up a prison building and it should stand for 50 years with not that much maintenance. Housing should be the lowest cost of all.
> 4.4-to-1
That's absurd! Only the most hard to handle convicts would need such a ratio. Easily fixed by separating prisoners into different prisons based on the crime, likelihood of violence, medical conditions, etc.
These are all costs that could be easily reduced if the US wasn't so corrupt.