The Automated Decision to Leave the Facility

The facility registered a new candidate just before dawn, a lanky guy, in what used to be a pretty nice suit. He just walked up the road to the chain-link fence. By the time I clocked in, he'd already been inside for 20 minutes. Nobody even knows anymore how the candidates get picked. It's supposed to be a cost benefit thing,. Like, what's a criminal cost if he stays in prison? What’s it cost to rehabilitate? How much if he dies in there?