High-tech industries need location. Headquarters for large corporations need location. Malls and shopping centers need location. But, prisons? Shuffle them off to the side. Put them in out-of-the-way places. Give them the spots left over when every other place has been spoken for.
Or, does prime real estate have just as much value to a prison as to a business?
Make no mistake, off top, part of why I want the prison to have a prime site is, I believe we can do a number of things to make prisons more effective, but those things will require more volunteers and workers. And, they will need to be the best of volunteers and workers. Having the largest pool possible from which to select your workers, to me, is as important to a prison as it is to a business.
And, having the best prison we possible should be of utmost importance to us. If we could rehabilitate our prisoners, would that not be about as great of thing we, as a society, could do?
So, tell me again why location makes no difference for a prison?
Prisoners need examples and they need love. Is is so easy to find those traits, that we do not need to select from a large pool of people? Do we not want to make it as easy for workers and volunteers to get to the prison? Do we not want to have every advantage in persuading them to work at the prison?
Teaching the prisoner good principles of family life should be important. Do we not, then, not want the prison to be as close and accessible as possible so family members can visit?
Oh, there are other things which make a prison important. You need to be close to the courts, the psychiatrists, and such. You need to have adequate infrastructure,such as roads and utilities. You need to have a large enough site for all your needs.
But, being situated convenient to attract the best workers and volunteers is the real reason for landing a prime site. Just as it important to most businesses, so is it important to a prison.
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