I would rather have a prison system that focuses on reducing recivism then one that focused on economically exploiting the prison publication for maximum value creation.
I wouldn’t be supporting something if it exploited inmates. It has nothing to do with exploiting the prison population; it’s about how prisons should be funded. Are you proposing we reduce recidivism to zero by executing every inmate? I assume not. You’re probably talking about rehabilitation.
We should not rehabilitate as much as possible. You shouldn’t prevent the theft of a candy bar for a billion dollars. So at what level of funding do you propose we provide for rehabilitation? If it’s when the benefits outweigh the cost (which is the only level that actually makes sense) then the linked prison proposal does exactly that. You can mathematically show that it does.
If you want to increase inmate wellbeing, by how much? If releasing them all maximized their wellbeing, we still wouldn’t release them all. So there’s an ideal amount of inmate wellbeing and it’s not to maximize it. How can you figure out that value? How can you formally verify that your prison system achieves that value? You can’t. So you have to pick a goal that’s correlated with inmate wellbeing:
better inmate wellbeing is a consequence of the policy for several reasons: (1) Societal contribution includes the crimes that occur within the prison, so prisons want to prevent their inmates from committing crimes against each other, and (2) societal contribution is probably maximized when former inmates integrate into society, so prisons want to educate inmates and keep them out of harm’s way.
The linked prison system should produce better employment outcomes, fewer crimes, less welfare dependency, and better treatment of inmates. If you can design a prison system that produces a better set of consequences, excellent. Let’s see it.
I wouldn’t be supporting something if it exploited inmates. It has nothing to do with exploiting the prison population; it’s about how prisons should be funded. Are you proposing we reduce recidivism to zero by executing every inmate? I assume not. You’re probably talking about rehabilitation.
We should not rehabilitate as much as possible. You shouldn’t prevent the theft of a candy bar for a billion dollars. So at what level of funding do you propose we provide for rehabilitation? If it’s when the benefits outweigh the cost (which is the only level that actually makes sense) then the linked prison proposal does exactly that. You can mathematically show that it does.
If you want to increase inmate wellbeing, by how much? If releasing them all maximized their wellbeing, we still wouldn’t release them all. So there’s an ideal amount of inmate wellbeing and it’s not to maximize it. How can you figure out that value? How can you formally verify that your prison system achieves that value? You can’t. So you have to pick a goal that’s correlated with inmate wellbeing:
The linked prison system should produce better employment outcomes, fewer crimes, less welfare dependency, and better treatment of inmates. If you can design a prison system that produces a better set of consequences, excellent. Let’s see it.