imprisonment, 49,200 pounds per prisoner

[jkat]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/200705...s-fa6b408.html

when the costs to inmates' families and wider society are taken into account, according to researchers at King's College, London.

lol might as well give the un violent ones the money instead and say retire please.lol

surely there are cheaper ways of dealing with certain aspects of crime??

[Xaccers]

So putting someone in prison may harm their families?
Shouldn't that be something the potential criminal should be concerned with?
We shouldn't be stopping criminals who deserve prison from being imprisoned because of their falimies, those criminals shouldn't be comitting crimes in the first place.