The question of whether businesses should be able to profit from prisons is one of the more polarizing issues within the corrections community. You are the mayor of a city on the eastern seaboard, which has a budgetary shortfall, and overcrowded jails. There is a bill that is about to come to your desk which proposes two solutions: that inmates in jails pay a daily fee, and one allowing a private company to take over an entire diversion program in exchange for "administrative fees" paid to the city. Write a speech detailing the problems with this approach, which also indicates an understanding for its rationale.
What will be an ideal response?
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