The US prison system is broken; can it ever be repaired?
• Terrence AymThe dirty little secret is that the current prison system is not designed to succeed. In fact a recent study of prison population growth since 1960 revealed that if the growth rate curve continues on its current trajectory that the prison population
the prison industry is not built for rehibilation---it is built for forced labor. the federal prison industry system, UNICOR, manufacturers furniture, auto parts, leases labor out to private businesses and to states and does work that competes with tax-paying industry. States have their own prison labor systems---not just to make automobile tags.
there was also a prison labor system in Germany during the '30's that made rubber products, aircraft, rocket components, quarry work, etc.