How do prisons make money by taking in prisoners?
I hear this a lot around the net and haven’t taken any substantial amount of time to investigate. Do prisons make money off of keeping people behind-bars? I am told by others that prisons couldn’t possibly make money, only lose, please help my clarify this notion.
A government owned prison does not make money, it cost money to operate. This money comes from taxes and from court costs.
A private prison is paid by the government. They are given so much for every prisoner they house.
There are many private prisons that are paid by the prisoner. The state pays to have a
private corporation run the prison piecemeal.
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A government owned prison does not make money, it cost money to operate. This money comes from taxes and from court costs.
A private prison is paid by the government. They are given so much for every prisoner they house.
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Law enforcement since 1991
Prisons are under the control of the Gov’t., they are not the private sector. Prisons are penal institutions.
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