Isn’t it possible that the money the companies pay to the prisons go towards the prisoners’ meals and housing, instead of making the money come from tax payers?
We currently have that system in place. Are you complaining, citizen?
In a perfect world it’d be great, in the real world you are opening the door to deep and widespread corruption. There will be a huge incentive to arrest, convict and serve very long prison sentences that are hugely out of proportion to the crimes committed, assuming one is even committed.
Given how out of control our legal system and police are already, I’m not sure I’d want to pour gas on the fire.
We had these programs in the ca youth authority
They got paid the same as the company’s employees on the street.
30% went to the state as compensation for the cost of incarceration
40%went to state victims of violent crime fund or towards reparations if that inmate had court ordered reparations
30%went to the. Inmates account for canteen and the rest when they paroled