Sometimes it's used by the state itself for cost savings, as in California under then-attorney general Kamala Harris (now Vice President): > “Extending 2-for-1

Sometimes it's used by the state itself for cost savings, as in California under then-attorney general Kamala Harris (now Vice President): > “Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation — a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,” lawyers from Harris’s office wrote in a filing. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/kamala-harris-office-sought-to-keep-inmates-locked-up-so-that-california-could-use-them-for-cheap-labor https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/kamala-harris-of...