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49th State Spends $49K Per Prisoner, Per YearAccording to the Alaska Judicial Council, one in 90 Alaskans was in jail back in the 1980s. Today, that number has gone up to one in 36.Related Content
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MayBeeBuzzy said on Monday, May 9 at 1:02 AM
No recent comments on this article? How quickly we forget (or get distracted). We need to contact our legislators on a regular basis. We need to get out there and vote. Something has to be done.
66705427Bill said on Friday, May 6 at 11:07 PM
The article says 1 in 36 Alaskans is incarcerated. Is that possible? America is the biggest Police State in the world with a higher percentage of it's population incarcerated than any other country (743 incarcerated per 100,000). "The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States The U.S. incarceration rate is 0.7% (743/100,000). If Alaska has 1 in 36 incarcerated (difficult to believe), that makes Alaska's incarceration rate 2.8% (1 in 36). That's kind of the way it feels in Alaska. You can't even go into the Bush without running into cops (e.g. Park Ranger Dallemolle on the Yukon). Alaska now has an authoritarian, unclean, evil feel to it with police misconduct now commonplace (e.g. rapist Rollins and the rumored APD "rape squads"). Fascism is expensive. That's OK. We can afford it - we have oil money. Attorneys and judges and police are depending on getting that money.
66630911ellis said on Friday, May 6 at 5:51 PM
Everything is a felony. They prosecute for crimes that have no victims. Criminal justice is a business - it's run for profit by the insiders. AK spends $6.14 billion of the "justice system." http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/26/1spring2009/b_expenditures.html There are about 700,000 people in the state. Hence, each of us spends about $9000 per year for the "justice system." For a family of 6, that's about $54,000 you spend on the "justice system." That's money that doesn't go for schools or roads, or whatever. You people are chumps. You're being fleeced by the cops, the judges, the prosecutors, and the government.
66620806BG said on Friday, May 6 at 11:14 AM
How about if we get the Civil Liberties People to pay some!!!!
66601014Anonymous said on Friday, May 6 at 9:49 AM
they live better than most people on the outside, thats not right! what ever happen to hard labor. its all about money, greed is and will destroy all man kind again. wake up sheeple.
66596487Anonymous said on Friday, May 6 at 9:42 AM
put them on a island, and say good luck loser!
66595972sickovit said on Friday, May 6 at 7:23 AM
There are simple solutions to this problem , such as farming out labor for non-violent offenders , prison industry for violent offenders. This not only equalizes the financial deficiency , but has to the potential to produce a profit for the corrections industry. Another benefit would be a form of OJT , at least it would keep people in motion rather than in storage, and prepared to assume a position in the workforce upon release. I'm sure it has nothing to do with lobbyist's for the prison industry which line the pockets of the key decision makers in our national and state chain of command. Lobbying is plain and simple legalized bribery and is to blame for a significant amount of the problems in our nation today. We as a people need to unify and demand attention to the mechanism of our government , it is and has been , out of control , for a long time. When money lubricates the decision making process , the clarity which our forefathers established as a precedent for our government is
66586282MayBeeBuzzy said on Friday, May 6 at 6:48 AM
This is a slap in the face to law-abiding citizens that subsist on poverty wages while working their butts off just to keep food on the table and a shelter over their heads. "Three hots and a cot" sounds too damn easy. Alaska should take a page from the Arizona prison system. Let the offenders tough it out and work their butts off for free labor.
66583912Bill said on Friday, May 6 at 6:11 AM
It would be a lot cheaper to just kill them
66581587been there said on Friday, May 6 at 5:39 AM
lies.....A.k. doc makes money of the system and keeps it full of low level offenderes..
66579369heyyall said on Thursday, May 5 at 9:51 PM
food, water, clothes, mattress, toilet, tp, sink, shower, and medicines as needed. how much is it to be a good, or at least not-as-bad, citizen?
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