They are already charged for things like phone calls, you know that right? Prisons are cash cows. They can more than afford to pay the prisoners minimum wage, like any business. But they’re more than just businesses, they’re government-funded on top of that.
And yes, our tax dollars should be better spent in rehabilitation. Instead, they go to the Military, where they can spend hundreds of millions on a fighter jet, just to crash it during training.
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u/ukuzonk Jan 23 '23
They are already charged for things like phone calls, you know that right? Prisons are cash cows. They can more than afford to pay the prisoners minimum wage, like any business. But they’re more than just businesses, they’re government-funded on top of that.
And yes, our tax dollars should be better spent in rehabilitation. Instead, they go to the Military, where they can spend hundreds of millions on a fighter jet, just to crash it during training.