Reply #6: Agreed. There are so many unspokens: prisons as community economic stimulus, profit and oppression,

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job outsourcing to prisons, voter representation redistribution, school budgets drained for correction outlays, etc.

It appears, that voters fail to understand the social or the economical costs of the prison industry complex (PIC). Today, prisons and jails are more than likely the U.S. largest employer. Jails and prisons are also likely costing citizens more in tax subsidies and bonds than they are lead to believe. As citizens pay larger tax burdens to run jails and prisons, they are also losing jobs to them.

The prison system presents another form of the "What's with Kansas?" paradox, why are voters so willing to act against their own self-interest?