I can't find a study which calculates how much just one month off a prison sentence costs at the margin, but presumably there is some discount at the margin in cases of multi-decade sentences or else what are we even paying lawyers for?

In other words, poor people can't buy down the length of their sentences, so they are statistically more likely to still be serving their prison sentence on that day when the statisticians show up with their pencils and stuff. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/(X(1...ookieSupport=1

And poor people are statistically more likely to be Black than rich people are.

In addition to the historical socioeconomic factors that Billshit O'Reilly fails to point out, out of the entire black population in America about .001% were convicted of a murder last year. So to generalize an entire group over 1/1000 of a percent seems a bit of racial bias and/or ignorance.

Check the incarceration rates and it's 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans who report using an illicit drug (5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans) yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites. African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months).

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And does anyone else see the irony that some of the same members who come to this site to discuss and pay idolatry to Italian criminals are the first to chastise black criminals as a systemic plague on society? (Just curious here, not judging.)