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To: TimF who wrote (65078)3/27/2008 9:44:26 AM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 90947
 
puzzling that crime rates go down when more criminals are put behind bars

Basic logic escapes some folks.

the total cost of the prison system per year was found to be 1.9 billion pounds sterling, while the financial cost alone of the crimes committed per year by criminals was estimated at 60 billion pounds sterling.

Be interesting to see similar cost estimates for here.