On Sep 17, 10:02*am, dave wrote:
John Smith wrote:
On 9/16/2010 6:14 PM, RHF wrote:

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i am for smaller prisons : hence the trash compactor
at the front gate -not-so-funny-and-sort-of-sick- ~ RHF
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I keep hearing that the average cost per inmate, in prison, is ~$40,000
per year. I would think we would be anxious to make the prisons as small
as possible ... but, I keep hearing that prisoners are being used as
slave labor, paid ~0.25 per hour and do jobs for private industries
which contract with the prisons ...

Point is, the whole prison "thing" stinks to high heaven ... and, I also
hear that ~1% of our population is locked up in prisons ... add to that
the rumor has it that ~30%-50% of the prisoners are in their for
"victimless crimes" and it is a real reeking sewer plant of possible
corruption and abuses ...

This is a great example of corporations making law, changing politics,
and getting rich.

Follow the "3 strikes" laws, drugs laws, *and the development of private
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Someone is making a lot of money from all them prisoners. Lot more
than we know, does anybody out there keep track of the actual figures ?