I just saw an article on my news feed about a community in California suing the state to keep a state prison open because they needed the federal funds having the prisoners counted as part of their population brought in.
This reminded me of something I saw on the series Oz that explained prisoners were counted as part of the population in the districts the prisons were in. Funds for roads, schools and other services the prisoners do not and cannot use, yet the communities get the funding anyway.
Why?
I can understand this being a bureaucratic mistake made long ago that wasn't caught gor a while, but now it's known, it was mentioned on the series Oz long ago, why has this frankly idiotic situation not been corrected?
It's wrong on so many levels in so many ways. Why had it not been dealt with?
Prisons benefit a community by bringing in jobs. They don't need to get population based funding for roads, schools, etc too.