This wasn’t intentionally misleading—I deliberately just wanted to look at costs and not benefits, and it didn’t occur to me that people would interpret that as a claim that prisons only had costs and no benefits. In retrospect, I’ve noticed that some people are reading this as a way stronger claim of the terribleness of prisons than I meant it (including quoting the numbers that I myself don’t believe because the study is super dodgy.)
This wasn’t intentionally misleading—I deliberately just wanted to look at costs and not benefits, and it didn’t occur to me that people would interpret that as a claim that prisons only had costs and no benefits. In retrospect, I’ve noticed that some people are reading this as a way stronger claim of the terribleness of prisons than I meant it (including quoting the numbers that I myself don’t believe because the study is super dodgy.)