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Originally Posted by CosmicPal
The more people you put in prisons, the more prisons that need to be built = $$$
Prisons also provide jobs = $$$
Prisoners are telemarketers, manufacturers, etc. = $$$
Sure, it costs the states gobs of money to go after criminals, but prisons are also machines of $$$
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That money doesn't come from the prisoners though. It's actually tax money being spent instead of earned. It doesn't support the main argument.