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Re:What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? by vacri on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:56AM (#4453538)
Who is it that you think pays for the prisons that are profitable? Who is their customer?

I mean, you're saying here that somehow the state would get more money back from the private prisons than they paid them, so they could spend this surplus on courts?

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Re:What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? by 3143 on Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:39PM (#4457452)
I have no idea. If the state is the customer, who is running the prisons? (And why are prisons allowed to be run by a non-state entity?)
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