> I don't want to be subsidizing something that fails spectacularly at everything it might be construed as trying to do, except make money for contractors. It

> I don't want to be subsidizing something that fails spectacularly at everything it might be construed as trying to do, except make money for contractors. It does succeed quite admirably at one very important goal -- what some would call the only goal: prisons keep convicts in prison and away from you and me. (Please don't take this as an argument in support of any position on prisons.)