There's a lot of jobs you could give someone who's a non-violent white collar offender where the cost of monitoring would be trivial, and where society overall would be getting a better deal than paying to keep someone in a cage.
Like, send SBF to Antarctica to clean toilets for the next 10 years, or do the same at a military base, or allow them to work exclusively on oil platforms etc.
Disagreeing that this should be done is one thing, but to claim that it can't be accomplished due to logistical difficulties just shows a severe lack of imagination.
A US federal prisoner costs (according to some quick searching) ~$120/day, the minimum wage is ~$7.25. So to a first approximation you could get the guy a blue collar job paying taxes, and pay someone else to do nothing but watch him for 15 hours a day to certify that he's still doing manual labor, and still come out ahead.
Like, send SBF to Antarctica to clean toilets for the next 10 years, or do the same at a military base, or allow them to work exclusively on oil platforms etc.
Disagreeing that this should be done is one thing, but to claim that it can't be accomplished due to logistical difficulties just shows a severe lack of imagination.
A US federal prisoner costs (according to some quick searching) ~$120/day, the minimum wage is ~$7.25. So to a first approximation you could get the guy a blue collar job paying taxes, and pay someone else to do nothing but watch him for 15 hours a day to certify that he's still doing manual labor, and still come out ahead.