EyeBrock EyeBrock:
Nice idea but most crims don't have two pennies to rub together and are on welfare most of their lives. Hence a life of crime.
We'll send the bill to Conrad Black and Bernie Madoff. Between the 2 of them there should be plenty of money.
On a slightly darker note I remember reading something a while back that although tries to tackle the funding problem completely ignores things like fairness and justice.
It went sorta like this. Simply allow people to buy there way out of jail, only for certain offences mind you. Plenty of non-violent crimes (like possession) where rich folk could pay huge (and affordable for them) fines to avoid jail.
Needless to say it creates a whole slew of other problems not to mention is morally questionable but its only concern is minimizing the cost to the tax-payer.