Seems a non starter. If your costs are $75K per inmate you'll never make that up...

		zuminator on March 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now cost... Seems a non starter. If your costs are $75K per inmate you'll never make that up in prisoner labor productivity. Even if your costs are half that. And if you do get profitable labor, regular citizens will rightly complain that good paying jobs are being taken by criminals.