warpus
In pork I trust
But I guess those cost are much lower than the direct incarceration cost of for example the US, not to mention the follow up cost and other social, education and human damage.
There are a bunch of for profit prisons in the U.S. too, and they have contracts with the state or municipality or whatever that mandate by law how many people have to be in the jail. So the state/municipality/whatever is obligated to provide those prisoners, so they might not have any incentive to not send people to jail for drug use or petty crimes, and might in fact have an incentive to maximize jail use
Where? That hasn't been the case among adults in the United States.
Portugal, the Netherlands, Colorado
Give it some time and one day most of those teens in Colorado should be adults