“We have been told that federal correctional officials estimate they will increase the sentenced population by 1,000 prisoners per year,” the judge said in an interview.Help me out here... what's the cost of letting a thousand extra criminals run around for a year?
It costs about $80,000 a year to keep a penitentiary inmate, so the additional burden of those on mandatory minimum sentences multiplies out to $80-million.
You could ask the families of Dylan Ellis and Oliver Martin.
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Two suspects are in police custody after a home invasion in which an elderly Halton couple were beaten, bound and robbed at gunpoint.*
The victims, both in their 80s, returned to their trailer home just west of Campbellville on Monday night to find two men inside.
The men, one of whom was armed with a .22-calibre rifle, assaulted the victims, tied them up with a rope and left them in the trailer before stealing their van and personal items including identification and credit cards, police said.