"And the politics. There was atremendous hullabaloo over the state's plan to close the Pontiac Prison, and it worked. The state kept a miserable wreck of a place to beneefit employment in Pontiac."
Yes, prisons create jobs. So did Auschwitz I imagine. A couple of weeks ago, I read an article in Al Jazeera of all places describing how palestinian workers were employed to build the Wall. No wall, no jobs, the article argued.
The mind boggles...
Joanna