If a kid comes out of a school in a poor area partially illiterate or illiterate and ends up in the criminal justice system partly as a result, this costs society in several direct and indirect ways.
- Lost tax revenue (income tax, sales tax, property tax)
- More police
- More judges
- More jails and prisons (public and private)
- Prosecutors
- Probation officers (public and private)
- Parole officers (public and private)
- Monitoring (drug tests, tracking) (public and private)
- More courts and court services
- Pre-release centers (usually private)
So basically all these people end up making money from this, whether it's a contractor building a new jail, or a probation officer working for a private contractor. It may even be a non-profit (all this, and they don't even have a website. I always thought nonprofit meant not being a dick): they make money.
