Please quit branding us under one umbrella. Many of us don't like the current situation. Even those of us on the right (Libertarian) find the system appalling.

Please quit branding us under one umbrella. Many of us don't like the current situation. Even those of us on the right (Libertarian) find the system appalling. This is purely a power play and money machine of the political class (the true one percent). Prisons, if not the whole police state, are all products of the political class. It is there means to spread money to constituencies that they favor, punish those they don't like, and put away people they don't want to deal with. Oh, it also makes tons of money for local, state, and national, politicians. The idea we put people in prison for drug use, financial improprieties, and such, never fails to depress me. Prison should be only for violent offenders. People who willingly harm others should be locked up. Then they should be prevented from harming fellow prisoners and also stopped from forming gangs/violent associations within. However that later issue is overlooked because it feeds the cycle. Prisons make many people worse and that sends them right back to the system to make even more money. tl;dr Prisons are profit centers of the political class.