Our prisons are profit motivated. Therefore there is no incentive to correct behavior. The only incentive is to increase head count, as that will increase shareholder value. This is why the U.S. holds one quarter of the global prison population right here in the 'land of the free'.

| Benny Acosta
 Wichita, Kansas
Re: (Op-Ed)
The-living-death-of-solitary-confinement (NYT)