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To: KLP who wrote (8181)	12/31/2005 5:52:46 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541370

The prison budgets are amazing. I can't tell you WHY it costs that much- but I know I've seen it costs more to incarcerate than to send someone to a good four year college. Frankly, I'd rather send all our non-violent offenders to college- I think we'd get a much greater social return (when I think of their greater income potential, and the taxes we would rake off that, my mouth waters.) Here's another cost to the system ( and there are so many of these accelerating costs in the prison system, we'd be here all night and much of tomorrow talking about them- don't get me STARTED on the impact this has had on courts and dockets): intellectualconservative.com I've already TOLD you my solution. If we decriminalize, over night ALL the non-violent criminals in prison for durg crimes are gone. Our prisons would have excess capacity- and prisons might stop being the great "growth" business they have been. That would be sad for some investors, and for some prison guards, but on balance, it would probably be mighty good for the rest of us.