Rizal Philippines
March 1, 2016
Washington DC - paying criminals not to murder
This post saw at CNN the article of GPS regarding a novel way of halting crime rates - bribing known criminals to stop committing crimes. This would cost only $9,000 per year. The known criminals are brought into program of anger management, etc and if they stay, they are paid a certain amount. The whole program for 20 people would cost roughly $400,000 as against the huge budget for correctional facilities. This is being tried in Washington D.C in a law that has been passed. This has been experimented in Richmond VA, one of the most dangerous places to be in USA. The program has mixed if not limited result.
Crimes could have devastating cost the society: the legal, detention, anguish, medical costs could run into billions. Would this novel idea work?
