What a practical solution. We hear story after story of how hosting the Olympics costs more than it's worth and ruins neighborhoods. Here they found a place tha

What a practical solution. We hear story after story of how hosting the Olympics costs more than it's worth and ruins neighborhoods. Here they found a place that already had many of the facilities needed, and found a way to pay for the cost of building new ones. And it even gave jobs and income to the local economy long afterwards. I really can not understand how anyone could be against this. Of course we all wish the war on drugs would stop, that sentences would be reduced, etc. But until that happens we can't just ignore the problem. Overcrowded prisons are awful and seriously harm the quality of life for the prisoners. Additionally, even with normal population growth, you would eventually need to build new prisons. And significantly reducing the prison population is actually really difficult, as demonstrated by this interactive: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/04/how-to-cut-the-prison-population-by-50-percent https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/04/how-to-cut-the... Surely this new prison would have been built anyway. And if they had built it someplace else no one would have noticed or cared. Using it to reduce the cost of the Olympics was a very practical solution that didn't change anything.