why do we build so many prisons?

Always we compensate men towards the horizon, for frontiersmen will be compensated from the understanding between the state and the first explorers were established. Where are the opportunities now? In the prisons. The railroads opened up new economies, real estate speculation and business and every other opportunity that comes with civilization. And prisons are fulfilling the same function. Every activity of daily living, all the commodities on the market (and off the market) must be had among the millions of prisoners. Any why do we lock up so many? We Americans are trained in the arts of tolerance. We are trained to absorb the other. We give them tattooes, records, their own alternative histories, conjugal visits, illegal drugs and all our social services and utopias of control are in prisons. We invent and accept folklore, hollywood culturally commodifies the criminal lifestyle. The criminals must be legitimate, a worthy adversary one worthy of the expenditure of billions of dollars. We commodify everything that comes out of the prisons from fashion (sagging pants) to music to social science research. Captive populations, continual experiments in surveillance and control, and calculations of the minimal level of humane treatment that can be transferred to policy to do with a welfare state, to apply minimal intervention and maximum control.

And so dysfunction must be so-...

And so dysfunction must be sown like a mustard seed and must be dispersed by all the known social forces (i.e. the social services, contracts, the police and the gaze of the abstract social) all power must be enlisted to problematize all aspects of life and philosophy so that the weight of this distraction can only be borne by a numerical certainty, the caress of capital, something so hyper-real and at the same time so concrete and virtual as, a number quantifying a person, and his or her pleasure and toys reified. A perfect combinatorial, organization, a smoothing and soothing of all that is rough and natural and has violence is possible when money flows adhere to the fortunate individual. The fighting (psychological problematic) intra-familiarly over "scarce resources", disorder (hygienic problematic) and the death-matches over the happiest standards of living are all subsumed by having enough money. The enormity of life and death will bow down to a hyper-standardized figure that is also fractal and works along a sliding economic scale that someone lowers on the totem pole.
Work is then initiated by the public maintenance (personal public relations or the social) of this established hyper standard. The job or career is the alibi for the deservedness of this maintained hyper standard. Of course any objective productivity therein is another hypersimulation of work done for sustenance of the made-living that produces the hyper-standard o