The system isn't failing - it's working exactly how the people who control it (the voting public) want it to. Out of sight, out of mind, cheap. The only way the

The system isn't failing - it's working exactly how the people who control it (the voting public) want it to. Out of sight, out of mind, cheap. The only way the prison system could be "failing" in the eyes of the electorate is if there were a lot of escapes, and there aren't.