HARD LABOUR

Steve Turner — 'If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear ... It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.”...and this research on incarceration in Australia is the result of men worshiping a god of their own making:

"Over the past decade, incarceration in Australia has grown at an unsustainable rate. The incarceration rate has increased by 30 percent in that time, from 167 prisoners per 100,000 adults to 217 prisoners per 100,000 adults. Taxpayers now spend $4.4 billion on corrective services, most of which goes towards incarceration. This figure has grown by 29 percent in just the past five years. Incarceration costs on average $110,000 per prisoner per year." [A Bushnell]

A cost of 110K per year? Ridiculous!

Take away the TV's, the sprung mattresses and other perks and let the perps work off their debt to society...that will cut costs in a big way.