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HeyBub[_3_]

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

Cheaper to keep 'em in a prison than a psych hospital. A bed in a
psych hospital costs upwards of $200/day. In my state, we can house
a prisoner for about $50/day (and we do it for about 157,000
prisoners).

In California, the cost is about $130/day.

We COULD take a bucket-load of Golden State prisoners, charge the
California $100/day and both states would make out like crazy.

Why haven't you? Kentucky has been doing it for some time.

I can think of three reasons: 1) The prison guard union in California
wouldn't allow it, 2) Those are not the kind of Californians we want moving
to Texas, or 3) Kentucky is underbidding us.