Well done. Isn’t your fire insurance estimate rather high. And what about Workman’s Comp insurance? That’ll break the bank.
I’m just throwing wild numbers out there. But no; if we’re talking about an area where fires are going all day and guards are around and vulnerable to attack with red hot metal, workers comp could be astronomical. If in fact inmates are paid anything for their work there may or may not be a workers comp requirement for *them*; I don’t know. In aggregate, this kind of program will cost perhaps 5,000 times the value of any shovels they manage to create, and of course, the metal coming out of the forge will be all annealed and the shovels will be for s**t as shovels unless they are heat-treated. They will work fabulously for smashing someone else’s face in, though. So if I’m overestimating insurance we can make it up by bringing in a paid blacksmith. The only saving grace will be when one inmate shoves a red hot piece of iron into the face of another and burns 1/4 of his face off. That’ll be the end of that.