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This was actually a significant operational cost.

After all, people could be brought over, but you still had to pay them.

The cost of a Grade A product was easy to calculate: based on the prisoner’s age, calculate the cash value the prisoner could generate during the average work life in prison, give a discount, and that was the purchasing fee.

It wasn’t cheap.

That’s why they say that prisons here are profitable, there’s no outsourcing wit ...

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