It's scarier to keep the prisons in the U.S. It's like having beggars on the street; of course we can afford to feed them and shelter them...but then we'd lose that deterrent quality. The point about prisons is that they make prisoners of both the people inside and the people outside.
Joanna
Prisons are built with stones of law; Brothels, with bricks of religion.
Blake
Devine, James wrote:
Joanna writes:> ... I'd just like to note that correctional jobs remain some of the best paid unskilled work in the U.S. In fact, a lot of the folks who lost their manufacturing jobs wound up being prison guards. The job is relatively secure, well paid, and will not be outsourced. It creates jobs, doncha know....the ultimate "ethical" argument, since as we all know, we live to work and arbeit macht frei.
Joanna
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why can't prison jobs be outsourced? can't China (for example) compete in the world prison-services market? we ship them our "miscreants" and they "reform" them for pennies on the dollar. Jim D.
