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| Topic | Prisons |
| Content | Oklahoma prisons are short of "beds" and funding. Solution:
1. The day of conviction, a prisoner begins a 40-hour work week at the highest wages available. The wages pay for victims' restitution, dependents' support, incarceration costs, and release savings. The percentage of each decided by sentencing judge. The incarceration costs would help with state funding of prisons. The employment would establish work habits, maintain skills and licenses, encourage skills improvement, etc. for better employment after release.
2. Employment would be for one of three 8-hour shifts per day. A second 8-hour shift would be for eating, bathing, laundry, exercise, authorized drug rehabilitation, education, counseling and earned priviledges (visitation, suitable TV and reading, writing, library, etc.). Note that a prisoner needs only one 8-hour shift per day to be in "bed".
3. Each cell have only one bed and three large lockers for three prisoners' personal items and clothes. During WWII, submarines did not have enough bunks for all crew members. Some were always on duty and others eating, etc. Sailors rotated using the same bunks for sleep, which was called "hot bunking".
4. Obviously, there would no longer be a shortage of "beds". Some prisons are already making furniture. Employers would provide factories. Unions would provide training.
5. This would be win-win for victims' compensation, dependents' not on welfare, prisoners' reduced recidivism, and tax payers' reduced taxes.
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