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valerief

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1. For-profit prisons, perchance? nt

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 07:35 PM

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(NYC) City’s Annual Cost Per Inmate Is $168,000, Study Finds [View all] Omaha Steve Aug 2013 OP

For-profit prisons, perchance? nt valerief Aug 2013 #1

great minds. . . niyad Aug 2013 #3

No alcibiades_mystery Aug 2013 #9

so what is the explanation for why the per inmate cost is so damned high--certainly isn't about niyad Aug 2013 #12

I have an idea about how the number cashes out: it has everything to do with public, not private alcibiades_mystery Aug 2013 #13

sadly, you are most likely correct. the other thing mentioned in the article was the ratio of niyad Aug 2013 #16

The guard to prisoner ratio turned hell-houses into relatively safe institutions alcibiades_mystery Aug 2013 #17

TY. I've found all these media stories serve the privatization forces. Hate this stuff. freshwest Aug 2013 #20

you have GOT to be kidding me with this statement: niyad Aug 2013 #2

We're not allowed to know. National security and freedumbs, ya know. nt valerief Aug 2013 #4

There is no "New York City prison system" alcibiades_mystery Aug 2013 #10

Of course, the slave labor, er, prisoners, are a cheap resource for corporations, er, persons. valerief Aug 2013 #5

No wonder RepubliCONs want to privatize the prison system Roland99 Aug 2013 #6

Of course in Arpio's prisons in Arizona... Earth_First Aug 2013 #7

And if most of the folks in the prisons could make 20% of that cost OffWithTheirHeads Aug 2013 #8

This sort of thing happens in business as well Mosby Aug 2013 #11

Is Bloomberg $ Invested in this? tom_kelly Aug 2013 #14

It would have been cheaper to send them to NYU. DeSwiss Aug 2013 #15

cook county (chicago) has a breakdown on the website madrchsod Aug 2013 #18

That money is going to someone, somewhere. n/t Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #19

How could we NOT spend that amount better, differently? snot Aug 2013 #21

Dude! Pay me $150,000/yr. and I'll give up my life of crime. tclambert Aug 2013 #22

At that rate, Heywood J Aug 2013 #23

With average for states at $31,000 NYC is obviously screwing this up. Pterodactyl Aug 2013 #24

that gives some perspective on a sentence of life without parole Supersedeas Aug 2013 #25

they nees to send the deot heads to other states Niceguy1 Aug 2013 #26

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