re: #662 Dark_Falcon

You’ve got a point there. Chain gangs, though, they might be a good idea.

Louisiana State Prison at Angola.
Once a hellhole, still a hellhole, but calm, relatively speaking. From wiki:

Angola is still run as a working farm; Warden Cain once said that the key to running a peaceful maximum security prison was that “you’ve got to keep the inmates working all day so they’re tired at night.”[citation needed]

Many prisoners in Angola are serving sentences which are so long that there is no realistic prospect of parole e.g. 60 years or more. Inmates who develop terminal illnesses are treated at a secure hospice within the grounds of the prison, and subsequently buried in the prison cemetery if their family cannot afford to claim and bury the body.[citation needed]

The prison hosts a rodeo every April and October, and its inmates produce the award-winning magazine The Angolite, available to the general public and relatively uncensored.[9] There is a museum which features among its exhibits Louisiana’s old electric chair, “Old Sparky”, last used for the execution of Andrew Lee Jones on 22 July 1991. Angola Prison is also home to the country’s only inmate-operated radio station.[10]

He keeps them busy, not with busy-work, but productive enterprises. It works.

I know this guy. He’s really strange, can be a complete asshole, but he knows how to run a prison.