If this is Good News...

Baldwin is in the poorest county in the state, but it's still sad when news of a prison expansion is considered good.

Some prisons-for-profit outfit called GEO Group is reopening the former Punk Prison and adding another 1,225 "beds" (as if this was some kind of a resort). They don't know where the prisoners are going to come from but in this wonderful land or ours, where we house 25% of the world's inmates, it sounds like a winning business proposition.

Still, I can't think of a worse occupation than being a non-union prison guard in a for-profit jail. If they are going to make money, old Geo Group is going to have to cut costs somewhere, and I have a feeling it's going to be on the backs of the employees.

There's a reason why corporations put shitty businesses in the poorest counties.