This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in a long time. > Well either it's achievable, or your minimum wage is so grossly low that you have much bi

This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in a long time. > Well either it's achievable, or your minimum wage is so grossly low that you have much bigger problems than the costs of incarceration. This is pretty widely recognized as the case for anyone not ideologically predisposed to reject the basic arithmetic involved. > You have people (mostly) locked in a building and you feed them 3 times a day. The biggest costs should be food, electricity, and labour (guards). Even by the actual reality of prison standards, that’s abusive. What about medical and mental health costs? What about even meager efforts of rehabilitation? Are the guards actual professionals trained to keep the inmates safe (from one another, other guards)? > Economies of scale bring the per-prisoner cost all the way down. This is bonkers!!! Why are we talking about economies of scale at all? Our goal should be to eliminate the need to house people in bondage against their will, not to reap the economic benefits of increasing their numbers.