That was a fun romp through work land in America.

Really, the current .gov admin could appoint you to the department of KPB, or Keeping People Busy.

Yep, work-release for non-violent crimes or low victimless crime, if there is such a thing, would probably save the citizens a crap ton, rather than paying to keep peeps locked up 24/7/365, even though some cubicle jobs might already seem that way. Let's just call it a new millennium CCC program for lack of a better name. That helps to keep these essential jobs occupied, since as we know with the on-going and post-pandemic situation, if it ever gets here, that the supply chain and national economic products and service distro systems are in a state of major FUBAR, at this time, IMO. Need labor? There it is.

As a side note: such a program might also de-incentivize incarceration for profit contractor enterprises where no matter how it's justified, economically the incentive for for-profit prisons is to lock up more peeps more of the time. AKA raw capitalism. Back in the day I think it looked a lot like debtors prison yet with no work-release.

Always nice to get some fun stories from peeps who have been in cubicle lockup for years at a time. It's like for some of these mental torture jobs, can A.I. get here fast enough?