The Knight Life by Keith Knight for January 19, 2023
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Transcript:
KK: clovis...you ever hear about the "adopt a prisoner" program? clovis: Sure! It was implemented after the supreme court ordered the state to purge 30,000 low risk prisoners from the state penn! The state is paying families $30,000 to house a felon for a year -- fraction of what it costs to imprison them annually!! KK: !! How "low risk"? Clovis: No worse than Gunther!! KK: Oh dear!!
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago
Ouch.
Randy Walters over 1 year ago
All right; if they’re actually low-risk (which is easy to believe, given the absurd number of people incarcerated over minor, non-violent drug offenses) why not just put them on parole or probation, and have them check in every month?
Bob Blumenfeld over 1 year ago
What do those figures say about the concept of for-profit prisons? And remember that this strip is over a decade old.