On: Do We Still Need Prisons?

[clamprecht]

Are you kidding? Think of all the prison guards with no skills who would be unemployed if we closed prisons!

[Forbo → clamprecht]

As tongue-in-cheek as this is, it raises a valid point. Corrections industry unions are large and powerful.

[DanBC → Forbo]

Not in England, where this article is from.

[drcube → clamprecht]

And good luck getting the locals to agree to compete with unpaid forced laborers.