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human
[Riddick universe] Why do prisons pay bounty hunters/mercs to deliver them dangerous criminals to be housed?

In the beginning of the game *Escape from Butcher Bay*, Johns demands Riddick’s bounty “+50” to Hoxie, the prison administrator. 

In the movie *The Chronicles of Riddick*, Tombs and his crew deliver Riddick to Crematoria, demanding 750,000 (or so). 

My question is, why do these prisons go out of their way to house incredibly dangerous fugitives who have penchants for prison escape?

Is it prestige? Clout to house more notorious criminals? Is there any wiki or information source that can glean some light on this?
gpt
The reasonable inference is that they're for-profit prisons, and they're getting paid to do it.  Regular law enforcement won't want to do it, and also won't want to do the transporting if they can help it.

So these prisons think they have the edge on containment, usually through brutality, and will essentially take contracts to confine these people.