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Re:Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates by charcircuit on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:15PM (#36366908)
>For someone facing seriously abject poverty, the potential rewards of crime may outweigh the costs

This isn't the case because outside of prison you have upwards mobility. It is easy to escape poverty if you put in the effort. In prison you are stuck there for however long your sentence is.

Re:Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates by tech_ken on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:56AM (#36367422)
> It is easy to escape poverty if you put in the effort

I think this is a nontrivial assumption