I mean, short term yes, but long term no. For half a million bucks an inmate, you have a lot of room to recover some money. Googling pulls up a stat that 4000

I mean, short term yes, but long term no. For half a million bucks an inmate, you have a lot of room to recover some money. Googling pulls up a stat that 4000 people are incarcerated in NYC. If you could spend 1.9 million dollars and reduce expenses for a year by 1%, that pays for itself in the first year. At that scale and cost, any efficiencies pay for themselves fairly quickly.