I often wondered why work isn't made available much to people in prison. I imagined workshops or small manufacturing units etc. But apparently (I was told by different Prison Officers) it would be an absolute nightmare to monitor, Security would be threatened, trouble would break out etc etc. Here in the UK, prisoners of C Category or higher are not often allowed to be together in groups of more than about four or five. They collect their food from the trolley a 'Landing' at a time, never more, and eat alone locked in their cells. A workshop would provide endless opportunities for tool-stealing, drug buying, threatening the vulnerable etc. I often visited at an Open Prison at Hollesley Bay, and the D Category men there worked on farms and with Suffolk Punch horses. But they were forever getting up to mischief (the men, not the horses) and ran the Officers ragged at times. I just don't know what to do about any of it. But no-one will ever convince me to have people's lives snuffed out, either for punishment, deterrent, revenge, convenience, money-saving or anything else. No.