I've often thought about this. In the Indo today there is a video of someone kicking in a shop window. I wonder if convicted for such crimes as this, whether prison time should be based on the minimum wage. Say the cost to repair the window is 5,000. Then dividing this by the minimum wage (11.30ph) would mean that the time in prison would be 442 hours in prison, or 18.5 days. There are of course other factors (such as pleading guilty or not and previous crimes) but IMO the 18.5 days should be the minimum prison time. With such as easy way to determine prison time, I wonder would this reduce other crimes such as car thefts, home burglaries too where a financial cost can be determined?
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