09-04-2015, 10:55 AM
(09-04-2015, 10:52 AM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: I still don't see what the value is to the government agency whether they fill the beds or not. Either way they pay the same amount of money. Seems to me there were other monitary gains being had.
Without knowing the details, I would guess it had to do with both feeding the prisoners and the cost of labor associated with guards.
There were probably details involved in the contract that the county would pay the business so much per meal per prisoner, so obviously less prisoners = less revenue.
