Oriole Penitentiary

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Tax costs

• It costs $32,000 per inmate a year
• About 5% of tax money goes towards prisons.

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Prison Nearby

• Cooper Street Correctional Facility, Jackson, Michigan
• Ionia Correctional Facility, Ionia, Michigan

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Working conditions

• The average number of guard deaths per year is 19
• 10,700 injuries per year

Education to be a Guard

• The required skill level is a High school Diploma or for upper class prisons can be up to a Bachelors degree

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Rural areas

• Since 1980 prisons have only been placed in rural areas
• The new rural prisons house around 235,000 inmates
• the majority of prisoners are now housed in rural America.

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Living near Prisons

• Residents don't feel safe.
• 40% of paroles are rearrested, which means crime rate is higher around prison.
• About 1,500 prisoners escape per year.

Industries

• Bringing a prison to rural town shuts down small businesses.
• Prisons make marketing rates go down.

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Takes jobs

• Lots of people would leave their jobs to work at the prison.
• It would make Charlotte's economy bad cause business's would close.

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References

• https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/184253.pdf
• http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/33-3012.00
• http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/inc_bigprisons.pdf