When discussing profitabilty and reducing costs, the numbers need to make some sort of sense. Picking mangoes to create income makes sense, until you realise that prisoners would need to pick about 250,000,000 mangoes to cover the cost of the NSW prison system alone.
I agree, it's easier to debate the point if the numbers don't have to add up.
Sure, I agree. But prisons are not businesses. Same as public hospitals, which cost even more than prisons to run.
Perhaps we could have prisoners running the public health system. Kill two birds with one stone.
I give up.
What is a budget cutting cost you would suggest for a prison.