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True Dough

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1. Well, that's one way not to waste taxpayers' money

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:31 PM

Dec 2016

for decades. A $15 theft (even if it was his 4th on record) resulting in hundreds of thousands in expenditures to keep him in prison. How insane that would have been!

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Appeals court tosses life sentence for $15 theft [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP

Well, that's one way not to waste taxpayers' money True Dough Dec 2016 #1

$77K per year to detain one prisoner in Federal Prison... TheDebbieDee Dec 2016 #2

Interesting research, DebbieDee True Dough Dec 2016 #3

Here's a link to an Adam Ruins Everything episode about TheDebbieDee Dec 2016 #4