Money well spent?

This country spends $60 billion a year on our prison population of 2,200,000. This works out to about $27,000 per inmate. You wonder, had we spent $7,000 a year on some of these inmates when they were kids, whether they would have wound up in jail. You also have to wonder how well our money is being spent as the recidivism rate hasn't budged much in the past twenty-five years; it's still around 67%. Another point to consider is that we are very likely spending more on people who have committed crimes than people who have not.

Are we really a Christian nation?