Woman Who Was Once the Youngest Person on Death Row is Found Dead

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13. You want to spend $30,000 a year to keep someone in Jail who will NOT commit another crime?

The lowest rate to returning to jail after serving time are Murders, most are beyond the age that people tend to do crime (i.e. males under age 30).

http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2012-02-the-high-cost-of-prisons-using-scarce-resources-wise

In Australia is cost $292 a day to keep someone in jail or $106,580 Australia Dollars per year:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/02/02/how-much-does-it-cost-keep-people-australian-jails

Britain says it cost £65,000 to imprison someone and £42,000 per year to keep them there:

http://www.fpe.org.uk/the-cost-of-prisons/

In the case of Prisoners sentence to death the cost to execute them is cheap, about $83.00, but the cost of the trial, appeals etc are four to ten times what it costs in a non death penalty case:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/01/considering-the-death-penalty-your-tax-dollars-at-work/

Now Indiana has low cost per prisoner, $14,000 per inmate per year.

https://smartasset.com/insights/the-economics-of-the-american-prison-system

Now, that does NOT include the cost of any medical care. 15 plus 28 equal 43 years of age, thus she is beyond the age when recidivism is great (i.e under 30). She is nearing age 50 when medical costs starts to kick in, and the state must pay such care 100% if she is in prison, but if she is out of prison and on Medicaid or Medicare (once she is over 65) the amount the state pays is reduced (in the Case of Medicaid, is she is on welfare, the state must pay 50%, is she end up on SSI, the Federal Government pays 100%, if she ends up on Medicare, the Federal Government will pay 80%, but in that case the state will NOT have to pay the 20%).

It is a lot cheaper for the state to release such murders, for the possibility of them murdering again is slim. No one is saying she should NOT be on parole, thus such murderers tend to be watched the rest of their lives, but at a much reduced costs to the state (if they violate they Parole, they go back to prison, another reason for them to NOT commit any crimes).

Sorry, Life without Parole, sounds good, but costs a lot of money for something of marginal real value. Yes, there are people who should never see the light outside of Prison, but such people (Like Charles Manson) will NEVER see life outside of Prison but people like him are the EXCEPTION not the rule.

Side note: Charles Manson is in Prison for life, NOT Life without Parole, just Life. Manson has been up for parole several times and have been refused every time for he is still a danger to society. Another murder, sentence to life, NOT life without parole, who NEVER should (and did not, he died in 1991) be Parole was Richard Speck. In prison he was a "Model Prisoner" in that he never cause trouble for the guards, but exploited prison life for his advantages not to prepare to live outside of prison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck

On the other hand, why is Sirhan Sirhan (The murderer of Robert Kennedy) still is in jail at the age of 71? At his parole hearings he says he does not remember what happened on that day in 1968 and for the reason he is constantly denied parole on the grounds his refusing to say he remembers what happened that day is a refused to accept his guilt. The chances of him ever killing someone else is slim to none, Why are California Tax Dollars being spent to keep him in Prison. He has been in Prison 47 years. Has been a Model Prisoner (unlike Manson or Speck).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan

Most Murderers are like Sirhan Sirhan not Manson or Speck, thus keeping them in Prison till they die is just a waste of tax payers money. We have severe prison over crowding problem, mostly do to long sentences for crimes. We have to leave out of prison those people who are least likely to commit another crime. Murders who have served 20-30 years fit that bill.

We need to keep taxes low and wasting tax money on prisons is NOT a way to keep taxes low.