We got offenders here that never had a job. They learn how to keep a job, they learn how to get up and go to work. It helps to build up their self esteem. Anderson wishes that there was more room for programs like this in the prison system in Texas and elsewhere. As it stands, politicians in the US often still prefer to deal with issues of law and order by calling for harsher sentences and more prison cells.
Private corporations are only too happy to oblige.