And so it continues....
An accurate perception.
The system is in a struggle, torn from all sides. The CDC is becoming a fiscal monster, both from within as salaries and retirement costs rise, and from without as recidivism runs rampant.
There are solutions but, as Hickman laments, they require a major polical commitment, spending the samll amount of politcal capital available in each party, and as Hickman conveniently fails to mention, a substantial change in public attitudes, again requiring tremendous politcal capital to promote unpopular ideas, toward the purpose of incarceration.