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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by gusgus01 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:50PM (#29400110)
That comparison is incredibly hard to make. The following article discusses it in depth, it actually specifically calls out a few reports about California.

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/oct/3/apples-fish-...

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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by istjohn on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:25PM (#29400312)
Also from that article:

Yet a 2010 report by Arizona’s Office of the Auditor General, based on data from the state Department of Corrections, noted that privately-operated prisons were actually more expensive than their public counterparts.

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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by xyzzyz on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:56PM (#29400490)
It may have been true in 2010, but hasn’t been true in 2018.

https://corrections.az.gov/sites/default/files/REPORTS/Opera...

Highest cost private prison was cheaper than cheapest state run prison.

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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by gusgus01 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:46AM (#29402258)
That is operating cost, which the article I linked described as one of the ways that comparisons use to skew data.
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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by xyzzyz on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:53PM (#29400472)
It might be hard in Arizona, where the disparity is small. However, it’s really hard to paper over 3x difference in costs with even extreme amounts of sophistry.
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