[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3

[Dennis Claxton]

Joanna wrote:


>I'm not sure if prisons don't help local economies. I used to live in a prison town (Plattsburgh). Most of the guards there used to have manufacturing jobs, so if they could not have gotten prison jobs, they would have starved.

But overall everyone loses:

http://realcostofprisons.org/