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by UVB-76
3604 days ago
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If your argument is that it takes a lot of resources to apprehend and convict someone, only to send them away for a mere four years, by far the largest cost in all of this is that of keeping them in jail. It costs around £40k/year to keep someone in jail, not including the opportunity cost of lost productivity. Will the prospect of an eight year prison sentence make someone less likely to commit the original offence(s) than a four year sentence? Probably not. Will it reduce the risk of reoffending once they are released? It will probably have the opposite effect. |
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