Quote (Skinned @ Sep 11 2014 11:30am)
I'm sure the OP was going off national average while your state may be a little higher.
I've been working in an asylum, and while technically not a prison, we get much of our revenue the same way. The trick for us to have enough crazy people and invalids who worked enough to draw SSI and social security and such to cover the rest of the people who didn't.
One of the facilities under our umbrella just closed because they had too many junkies and younger people and the balance was upset.
I know that in no way are we a prison, but our residents compare it as such sometimes.
What is worse is that we in Ohio get all the people from Kentucky and Indiana because neither of those states has built a facility in a few decades and they're all full. Many of our residents are discharged and come straight from Louisville or Indianapolis state hospitals, which is infinitely shitty for us because it should be their problem. Also this underlines the necessity of a federal response to the care of the elderly, the insane, and the invalids.
Sorry, I don't mean to derail. Prisons don't have these problems, they are essentially institutions that take money hand over fist by the government and stuff them into private pockets while the inmates themselves make enough money in labor to live there without the need for private ownership.
You are pretty much spot on. The meals although 3 times a day are small but are approved by a nutricist and they wear rags, I don't see how it even cost them 10k a year until you think of matitence and our salarys lol.