d prisons and cost taxpayers more money to keep each inmate in prison serving their entire sentence. In addition, waiting lists would be created for new offenders for lack of vacant cells, and would triple waiting lists already in effect in some states. Opposing views would rather have their tax dollars spent on rehabilitative programs which they feel will help foster more functional parolees. While I agree these views are true to some degree, I also feel it is important to realize that taxpayer dollars are spent on aiding third world countries in astronomical numbers for the same reasons we pay tax dollars to house inmates, which is to avoid injustice. For example: the United States government not too long ago was sending in our soldiers into Bosnia to try to bring peace, and millions of dollars were spent as they dropped million-dollar missals, and destroyed military defense tools to defend themselves from retaliation. I wonder why instead, our government does not spend this money on defending its own people from its own criminals, by building new prisons. Obviously, our government has the funds, and instead of using them to protect the rights of foreigners, they should be using these millions of dollars to better protect our society, which is filled with promising children, young adults, and seniors who brought us into this generation. We deserve to be protected as much as any other human race. Our tax dollars spent on housing inmates are a lot cheaper for us to pay when one considers the cost of irreparable pain and suffering, of a victim who falls prey to a parolee who had no intention of reversing his or her former lifestyle and recommitted their life to crime. One cannot put a price tag on scarred lives. It would be worth every penny to keep these criminals behind bars until they have completed their full sentences, if it meant even saving one innocent life, or sparing someone an unforgettable damaging experience. In conc...
