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Originally Posted by Sebb
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What I am failing to comprehend is why does NYC have to pay for warehousing people that have no reason whatsoever to be in the city, such as the incarcerated or unemployable (for the reasons of disability, insanity, stupidity, laziness, or disruptiveness/criminality). Why do jails need to be in NYC? There should be one short-term holding place (which I believe exists - that tall brown skyscraper between the municipal buildings and Chinatown), and from there inmates should be transferred somewhere into the Upstate nowhereland where it should be cheap to build and maintain the massive-sized jails that NY needs.
Ditto for the mental institutions (their patients already overlap with jail population anyway) - they could be built next to jails. The rest of these purpose-built Upstate towns could consist of public housing - after the present projects in NYC are sold to private buyers. The costs of maintaining security in these jail-nuthouse-housing project towns would have to be pretty high, but I think it would still be incomparably cheaper than to take care of criminals, the insane/homeless, and the unemployable within the City. Not to mention that it would do miracles for public safety in the city - NYC would become safer than Tokyo.
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