This “robbing Peter to pay Paul” sleight of hand misses/ignores the obvious fact that the $300.000 coming from the state to pay Floyd County is actually the money that Greater Romans paid in taxes in the first place. I suppose it’s a type of “earmark” since you’re getting something from the state in a greater amount that you’ve probably paid in (in fact, federal earmarks/”pork” are also returns on taxes that you and others have paid.)
America has one-fourth of the world’s prisoners precisely because folks are trying to make money on the prisoner game and corrections workers have a powerful lobby that is busy selling a fiction about crime and punishment in America. Disappointing.
If you google it you see that this information came from the number 1 result, which is the GA Dept of Corrections.