> Is this a fact about the U.S. legal system, or about legal systems in general? I can't speak to other legal systems, but the fact that here in the USA we hav

> Is this a fact about the U.S. legal system, or about legal systems in general? I can't speak to other legal systems, but the fact that here in the USA we have a large "private prison industry", coupled with the fact that these prisons often sell their "prisoner work services" (or whatever they call them) to other companies, and they lobby Congress for these new laws, and for more prisons to be built, etc... Yeah - they kinda have an incentive to make more people break laws - so they continue to get more "employees" (and more "campuses") to be able to sell these services to more companies (who like the access to these cheap services - much cheaper than hiring their own employees, sometimes even cheaper than overseas workers - prisoners are pretty cheap to employee as a group!). I'm sure that this is a trend, though, that might expand worldwide, if it hasn't already...