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The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.