Comments on: The Unimportant NRO http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/11/the-unimportant-nro/ Your Hotline to Pakistan Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:24:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chip H http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/11/the-unimportant-nro/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Chip H Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:18:13 +0000 http://www.newslinemagazine.com/?p=6609#comment-431 As America's new ally against 'Those Who Would Do US Harm', Pakistan should seize the initiative, with their security and technology capabilities, and construct offshoring prisons for the millions of US prisoners who will have to be released unless US tax revenues magically increase. Pakistani tele-prisons would offer highest possibly security, after all, who would try to escape? With modern internet and television networking, any offshored tele-prisoner could quickly and conveniently be tele-present with his or her former family and associates in the US, they can attend tele-universities, read the Great Books, or otherwise improve themselves. All this would be accomplished at a huge discount to the US system, which costs American taxpayers an astounding: "On average, it costs $20,000 per year to maintain one prisoner and $20,000 per year to staff, per prison cell. It costs $100,000 to build each prison cell, and actually $200,000 per cell, financed over a 25-year bond issue. Assuming 25 years between refurbishing and remodel, that's $48,000 per year per prisoner per cell." (2004) California is much higher, approaching $100,000 pppc. There are 2.2 million prisoners in US prisons, that's a profit potential of up to $200B ... PER ... YEAR, more than the entire Pakistan GDP of $167B! Think of the profit margin for Pakistan government, if some of those $1B's in GWOT security aid funding were spent to build a tele-prison for those US prisoners-for-life who absolutely cannot be released! As America’s new ally against ‘Those Who Would Do US Harm’,
Pakistan should seize the initiative, with their security
and technology capabilities, and construct offshoring
prisons for the millions of US prisoners who will have to
be released unless US tax revenues magically increase.

Pakistani tele-prisons would offer highest possibly security,
after all, who would try to escape? With modern internet and
television networking, any offshored tele-prisoner could
quickly and conveniently be tele-present with his or her
former family and associates in the US, they can attend
tele-universities, read the Great Books, or otherwise
improve themselves.

All this would be accomplished at a huge discount to the
US system, which costs American taxpayers an astounding:

“On average, it costs $20,000 per year to maintain one prisoner and $20,000 per year to staff, per prison cell. It costs $100,000 to build each prison cell, and actually $200,000 per cell, financed over a 25-year bond issue. Assuming 25 years between refurbishing and remodel, that’s $48,000 per year per prisoner per cell.” (2004)

California is much higher, approaching $100,000 pppc.

There are 2.2 million prisoners in US prisons, that’s a profit potential of up to $200B … PER … YEAR, more than the entire Pakistan GDP of $167B!

Think of the profit margin for Pakistan government, if some of those $1B’s in GWOT security aid funding were spent to build a tele-prison for those US prisoners-for-life who absolutely cannot be released!

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