User: Rubonnek

Theoretical research to work on this has been done

On: At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com)

There are two summer research articles, both from the MTBI at Arizona, that come to mind:

Prison Reform Programs, and their Impact on Recidivism, and Minimizing recidivism by optimizing profit: a theoretical case study of incentivized reform in a Louisiana prison.

I'm aware the keyword here is 'theoretical', and there's a chance that the equations brought out by the research may have to be updated for other unseen problems, but I can't help but wonder if any of these articles have been put to good use.