#Watching the TV3 election debate with leaders from TPM, Greens, Winston First and ACT:
https://piped.video/watch?v=db6k68wgwHA
It annoys me that the news media elevated the leaders of the legacy parties to their own private Chrisfest, instead of having a leaders debate that included these 4. That would have been a much more robust and insightful debate than listening to two sheets of human wallpaper dribble talking points at each other.
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David Seymour admitted that having 10,000 people in prison, costs the public $7 per week for every man, woman, and child in the country. That's a lot to spend.
Especially when it's well known that people who spend time in prison are more likely to reoffend, and to commit more serious crimes when they do, than when the criminal justice system responds in other ways (eg restorative justice).
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/09/21/being-tough-on-crime-is-easy-but-doesnt-work.html
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So logically, the party of liberty and limited government must see this as a problem to solved by funding non-prison responses, right?
"ACT will increase the prison population"
https://www.act.org.nz/act_will_increase_the_prison_population
Oh.
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“Until we accept reality and start locking up more criminals, Kiwis will remain unsafe in their communities, their workplaces and even their homes. ACT is proposing tougher sentences for serious crimes and increased capacity to lock more criminals up,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The human cost of being a victim is nothing compared to the cost of imprisoning criminals. Dividing the cost of locking up 10,470 offenders (the prison population before Labour’s 30% reduction experiment) across the population works out at about $1.06 each per day. That’s just a dollar a day to keep creeps off the streets.
Awaiting the tenders for private prisons to go up. Imagine if that $1.06 a day went to investors...
@IceNine
> Awaiting the tenders for private prisons to go up
It's the only logical reason for wanting prison numbers to go up.
A party of real libertarians would want imprisoning people to be a cost to the state - a serious one - so they're discouraged from doing it unless there's a very good reason.
Strypey
IceNine