(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[Jeff Wilson]

On 4/12/2012 8:18 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> "Finally, in my opinion it is not the money spent housing the convicted
> or defending the accused but the money spent killing foreigners by the
> US military that deserves to be spent on the homeless---and in any case
> it's a fairly awful argument to make that we should kill criminals so we
> can house homeless men and women (in conditions equal to prison or
> worse) instead of fixing the grossly inequitable economic and social
> structures that led to the medical poverty, unemployment, addiction, and
> mental illness which caused or prolongs their homelessness in the first
> place."
>
> I couldn't agree more.  Skipping to the sad end (questions of the death
> penalty, incarceration for life, etc.) without addressing the
> deep-rooting sociological ills of society that result in these
> situations is fruitless.

However, offense spending has proven to be a more reliable deterrent in 
its sphere than domestic corrections.


-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >