Life behind bars. (rising prison population ) (Editorial)

The Progressive | July 1, 1993 | Copyright

The public schools can go begging. So can the health-care system and providers of social services. But hard-pressed state governments everywhere keep managing to find the money to build prisons. Construction firms that used to build hospitals and college dorms and government office buildings--especially in the South--can't find work like that anymore. Instead, they build prisons. As former Governor Bob Martinez, a Florida Republican, said on the campaign trail in his 1990 re-election bid--a losing one--"We have to build prisons. . . . It's not just putting away prisoners. ...

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