OUR VIEW

0 Comments | Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Mar 6, 2008

No economic advantage comes from a prisoner. Each and every prisoner is pure liability.

A healthy society views prisons as necessary evils -- options of last resort to protect the public from violence. It views prisoners as liabilities, and free humans as assets. A healthy society works hard to minimize prison populations, for the sake of limiting liabilities and helping the common good. In the United States, we've somehow mistaken prisoners as assets. We've purchased a lie, sold by politicians looking for easy political gain. It's a sick and twisted perspective, and one that threatens to break us.