If you want someone killed in prison, I gotta admit, it seems like a pretty good business model to get someone who's already serving a life sentence in that prison to do it for you.
That doesn't mean it's ethical or moral, obviously. Clearly it's not.
But still. Seems like a sound plan.
(Assuming you don't get nailed for conspiracy, of course.)
I also learned something else reading this opinion. I didn't know that the Mexican Mafia's "tax" on illegal operations in prison was one-third. Seems steep.
I also wonder if that tax is gross or net. Say I pay a guard $600 to smuggle a cell phone into prison and sell it to another prisoner for $900. Do I owe $300 tax, or only $100?
The former would seem fairly inimical to entrepreneurship, no?