“So this is the State Correctional Institute of Pittsburgh. That’s where a bunch of my buddies are. Rather than getting on with their life, the vast majority of the guys end up here or dead.
“The state spends $33,000 a year on each prisoner…which makes the total cost of the average prison term $132,000. The average private school cost $8,300 a year. So, for the same amount, we could have sent a prison inmate to a private school from kindergarten through 12th grade, and still had over $24,000 left over for college.
“It’s a very expensive hotel man. You gotta feed them for three meals a day. You have to provide recreation. You have to provide security. You have to provide medical care. These guys don’t pay taxes. They don’t work. It’s money that goes one way only.”
