One must remember prisoner-on-prisoner violence. Prisoners are always out of sight, our of mind. If one packs ten times as many prisoners in the same jail space designed for smaller populations, they are unlikely to get along, or to be managed in a humane way.

Real management of social unrest isn’t done by imprisoning the poor and disenfranchised, but by creating social systems that lift them up and disincentivize the gang life.