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Date Added: April 20, 2008 10:56:01 PM
In Maryland's booming prison economy there are winners and losers. Inmates face financial ruin and state taxpayers lose, too - about $39,000 per year, per inmate. Prison entrepreneurs, for whom each inmate is a government-subsidized business opportunity, are the big winners.

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