Chapter 1425: Asking for a Thigh
Is Michelle Steele willing?
He was so happy!
That's what people do.
"Indeed, if you want to rely on Mr. Snyder to promote this alone, it's not that it's impossible, it's just a little troublesome," Michelle Steele nodded with the excitement in her heart, "If you can make 'promoting private prisons in Michigan as soon as possible' become the consensus of the state government, then it will be easy to do." ”
"And that's what you're good at," Leilani Taylor looked at Michelle Steele with a smile, "right, Mr. Steele?"
"Of course," Michelle Steele replied without hesitation, government PR, which is indeed what he is good at, and he does not mind showing her energy to Leilani Taylor: "I can even get a fair number of private prison practitioners to work with this one." ”
"Very well, it seems that you are very sure about this matter," Leilani Taylor opened the cards directly: "Mr. Steele, you already know the general situation, let's say, if you let this matter pass in three months, how much benefit will you need?"
How much benefit should I have?
In fact, after just knowing the purpose of Laylani Taylor's search for herself, Michelle Steele was thinking about this problem. Most importantly, he was keenly aware that this was a great opportunity to make money!
Private prison!
Opening a private prison is not what ordinary people imagine, and the prison party gives money to the state to keep prisoners in their own prisons, but the state needs to give money to the prison party, why is this so?
In fact, there is a logic in the reason: are we helping the country?
So in general, private prisons receive about $45 a day for every prisoner the state holds – yes, the state must provide a prison subsidy to private prisons, and private prisons provide prisoners to the state.
But in reality, the prison authorities do not need that much money at all, and the daily expenses of each prisoner are actually less than 30 US dollars, which means that the prison authorities can earn at least 15 US dollars per prisoner per day.
This is still the most basic kind of inmates who lie down in their rooms and sleep in the playground, or bask in the sun on the playground to catch lice, but we need to know what kind of prisoners are the majority of prisoners in prisons? Of course, prisoners who are physically healthy and well-bodied, what kind of people can be equated with "stick labor".
And in fact, no private prison will spare such a large group of awesome laborers!
Under the slogans and banners of vocational skills training, the prison authorities force prisoners to do a lot of manual labor every day, and the money earned by these prisoners naturally goes to the owners and shareholders of the private prisons.
In contrast to this, each inmate can generate at least $20,000 in net profit for a private prison per year!
That's a lot of money!
Michelle Steele licked her lips and cautiously asked Laylani Taylor, "Miss Taylor, what if...... I mean, if ...... What if I don't want money?"
Hearing Michelle Steele say he didn't want money, Laylani Taylor's brow furrowed: "So what do you want?"
"Well, can we work together in another way," Michelle Steele asked Laylani Taylor, "for example, can I use my commission and my connections to take a stake in this prison?"
Well??
Michelle Steele's thoughts made Leilani Taylor stunned, and then, he looked at the other party with a strange expression: "Mr. Steele, with all due respect, this is against your industry standards, right?"
Indeed, in the lobbying group, it is very rare for this situation to occur, everyone eats the work of protecting the media and pulling fiber, and after a long time, it naturally forms a set of its own code of conduct: brokers, only earn commissions that belong to brokers, and other money cannot be earned.
This is normal, if as a broker, you see that this business is making money, and you want to intervene, and when you see that business is making money, you also want to intervene, what do Party A and Party B think? Will they feel comfortable? Everyone has done this, who would dare to come to us for matchmaking?
Of course, Michelle Steele knows that this is not appropriate, but the profit of opening a private prison is really too eye-catching for him, the key is that with the current crime situation in the United States, the income from opening a private prison is as stable as an old dog!
How exaggerated is the crime rate in the United States?
Speak out and scare you!
The prison population is as high as 2.3 million, and the incarceration rate is as high as 0.7%! (2018 data)
Major Prisons in the United States...... Or rather, all prisons, perennially overloaded!
If there is anyone who wants more and more private prisons to open, it must be the state and state prisons of the United States!
And almost all private prisons ...... Or we can remove the "almost" from it...... From the day you open, you don't have to worry about the "occupancy rate", the government will fill every bed immediately, immediately, and at the first time.
So, as long as you have the ability to open a private prison, you don't have to worry about making a profit, because from the moment the project is approved, you start making money.
Naturally, it is understandable that Michelle Steele is greedy for this project, and even participates in the industry taboos. In the face of Laylani Taylor's rhetorical question, Michelle Steele hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes, I know it's not good, huh...... If you don't agree, just because I didn't say it, please rest assured that this will not affect our cooperation in any way. ”
Forgive me for not having the guts.
Leilani Taylor pursed her lips, and was about to speak, but she saw Curtis Cnutson winking at her, obviously having something to say to herself.
Hey?
What's the situation?
Curtis Cnutson's actions made Laylani Taylor a little puzzled, but seeing Curtis Cnutson seemed to be in a hurry, Laylani Taylor hesitated for a moment, and still asked Curtis Cnutson, "What? Mr. Cnutson, do you have anything to say?"
"Yes," Curtis Knutson nodded hurriedly, "Miss Taylor, it is so, and I hope you will give careful consideration to Mr. Steele's suggestion." ”
Curtis Knutson's words were beyond Laylani Taylor's imagination, and she was a little incomprehensible: "Hmm?
"Because the prison industry is different from other professions," Curtis Knutson said seriously, "he needs someone to maintain a constant relationship with the government...... If you look at the team composition of CCA and GEO, they have a dedicated public relations management team, and the most important job of this team is to maintain a good relationship with the government. ”
Leilani Taylor understood what Curtis Knutson meant: it was only fitting that Michelle Steele, a lobbyist familiar with all aspects of state government, would be in charge of that.