Incarceration being expensive is a feature. The drive comes from a profit motive in private prison concerns. Sending the poor to use expensive military kit on

Incarceration being expensive is a feature. The drive comes from a profit motive in private prison concerns. Sending the poor to use expensive military kit on vulnerable foreign populations and arresting the non compliant is much more profitable than just providing every one of them with shelter and job opportunities. Society doesn't optimize globally for good will, it optimizes locally for profit.