In my opinion once someone is sentenced and sent to jail our prime concern should be getting as much out of him/her as possible. In prisons in Canada for example once someone commits murder and is found guilty he is simply going to go to jail for a long time. Not much good comes out of this. According to statistics it cost $68,985 a year per canadian prisoner in 2001 and the costs are rising. So not only are we not gaining anything from these criminals but we are paying large amounts of money for them to sit around. Those that commit severe enough crimes aren’t getting punished that much and most of them do not get rehabilitated. I think that some of these people should be "donated to science". Various experiments, medical procedures etc. could be performed on them which could greatly benefit the people. Others could be killed and their organs could be given to those who could put them to good use. Others still could have blood drawn from them regularly for the blood banks. Perhaps the higher profile criminals could be executed and then the body could be auctioned off to the highest bidder? The money could then be donated to various organizations. I am sure hard labor could also be put to good use(I wonder how much power we could get if we hooked up a couple of prisons to generators and put all their prisoners on some treadmills)
What are your thoughts? Do any of you agree? Any other ideas?
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