"In other words, you've been eating our food and drinking our drinks; now we're just asking you to spit out some of the taxes owed. That's not too much to ask, is it?"
Hearing David's words, Caroline and the rest found themselves even less able to rebut.
Because according to the agreement signed between the government and the private prison,
the private prison would receive a daily subsidy of 58 US dollars for every prisoner it took in.
Although this amount might not seem like much, it adds up when combined.
Take the Rio City GCO Prison for example, which housed over 5,000 inmates. For these inmates, the government paid almost 290 thousand US dollars daily in subsidies.
That amounts to 8.7 million US dollars a month.
And if you start counting from the establishment of this prison, within three years, the figure nearly reached 300 million.
