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The state, unfortunately, does not have a great incentive to reduce costs; especially since a lot of prisons are run by for-profit entities.

• staticautomatic 4y ago
  …that are paid by the state.
  • pclmulqdq 4y ago
    ... and who pay politicians large sums of money to keep it that way.
  • colpabar 4y ago
    The state is just people though, and people like money. It's pretty naive to think that the politicians in charge of this stuff don't get huge kickbacks from private prison operators.