I caught sight of the title of this article: Localities recoup incarceration costs and I thought, sweet, it’s about time we stop paying the criminals way in the world. Then I read the article. Needless to say I was not pleased, I had thought we were recouping the cost from the criminals in some way, turns out we’re just passing the buck on to the federal government, so it’s coming out of everyone in the whole countries wallet, not just ours in Virginia. NOT the direction I wanted this to be heading in. I’m all for recouping the cost, if someone is found guilty of a crime they need to not only “do their time” but they need to pay for it monetarily as well. I know that’s not exactly what this article was about, it’s talking specifically those incarcerated but not convicted. In order to address that cost we’ll just need to be careful who we incarcerate.