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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 hour ago

Giving $500/month to help the life of a needy American: i sleep

Spending $100,000/day to make a non-American's life miserable: real shit

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

How are they managing to spend that much for imprisonment? Are they actual expenses or is someone pocketing most of it?

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 38 minutes ago

I found this image from the American Holocaust Memorial Museum site discussing the cost of housing prisoners in the concentration camps:

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1140586

If my math is correct, it looks like they actually made around 197.30 RM for every prisoner that lived and worked for 9 months. Modern nazis suck at this whole mass incarceration thing.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That's 100K per person and per day.

Also, thank you Reuters for stepping up and covering some of this. I give you shit for being privately owned by a Canadian billionaire, but you're probably the least biased out of all of the majors. Maybe cuz trump tried to take your country? Nevermind, I don't care why.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 15 points 3 hours ago

So? We ELIMINATED my Child's Education and my VA BENEFITS and my SOCIAL SECURITY and the FCC and the FTC so we CAN Afford this!

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 20 points 3 hours ago

OH OKAY, but my idea to replace ALL roads with high speed rail is "too expensive" and "ridiculous" and "you've gone over the public comment period, please stop before we have you arrested"

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 3 hours ago

Guarantee you they're waiting for enough general pushback on the financial costs so that they can suggest gas chambers as a compromise

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

And this is why you can't have your social security anymore.

[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

it's important that some govt contractor gets a big piece of that money

So efficient…

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

"Efficient"

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Not efficient nor cost savings.

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Rikers: "Those are rookie numbers"

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

No way Rikers Island (NYC jail) costs that much to run. Possibly if you add the cost of paying settlements.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Temporary pain to own the libs, hoss

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Mmm kickbacks!