[komali2]

Try seeing it in another light: that is our punishment for failing to create a society that removes the need for crime.

How much of those 30k/year inmates are we wasting tax dollars incarcerating because we refuse to acknowledge that marijuana is not worthy of a schedule 1 certification? How many because we failed to provide an equal opportunity education system?

The prisoners are already being "punished" by having their freedom taken away. I don't see why they should have to pay for the mechanisms that remove their freedom at the same time. They're still citizens. They have paid and will continue to pay taxes. They still participate in the system despite being a prisoner of it.

We don't make people pay per usage of the existence of the FDA. Why make them pay for their own prison?