HB16

HB16 Criminal Justice, Death Penalty - JFogarty, MFlagg

**__Bill number__**: HB16


 * __Sponsors__**: MFlagg, JFogarty


 * __Issue Category__**: Criminal justice


 * __Bill title__**: The hypocrisy bill


 * __Purpose__**: The purpose of this bill is to abolish capital punishment in the United States. This bill will save an estimated 2.6 million dollars per year in tax payer’s dollars and clear provide jobs to new security guards for the enlarged maximum security system.


 * __Eligibility__**: This bill will protect anyone convicted of murder from the possibility of death, and will instead sentence them to life in prison without possible bail or probation.


 * __Terms and benefits__**: The first step is to raise awareness of the bill and advertise the bill to the public and people who could possibly be affected by the bill. We will have televised advertising nationwide informing the public about the bill and the main plot of what we are trying to accomplish. Next, we will add additional holding cells to the maximum security prisons to hold the criminals that would have originally gotten the death penalty if the bill had not been created. We will also begin to hire new guards to guard the new cells in these prisons, which will create jobs for the unemployed. Then, we will begin to enforce the law. We will not even begin to consider the death penalty as a possible punishment for any crime, no matter how terrible. We will instead send them to a maximum security prison where they will spend the rest of their lives with minimal contact with the outside world and little or no possibility of bail or probation.


 * __Fiscal impact__**: We will need to televise advertisements for the bill to raise awareness, and expand the prisons to allow more inmates into the maximum security prisons. We will also need to hire more guards for these prisons to increase security. We will also need funding to pay for expenses of the criminals housing in the prisons.

30 new prison cells: $3 million 30 new prison guards: $600,000 4 months of airing for a 30 sec. televised advertisement: $300,000 10 new inmates in high security prison per year: $6 million Total estimate: approx. $10 million