Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Exactly!

Their food, shelter, clothing, medical, dental and everything else is already paid for by us. So if we factor those costs in with their 23cents/hr. wage - they get far more than 23cents.

Sympathy for prisoners is still found in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

In Canada - serial killer Karla Homolka came out of prison with a goddamn university degree paid for by us...while behind bars. I don't have the adequate words to describe how pissed off I was when I heard that.