country’s insane asylums have eagerly taken advantage of the public’s predilection towards fear, and are only too glad to accept the nominal sum they have been offered by our government for each new patient accepted into their care. Naturally, this financial incentive encourages many less-than-upstanding superintendents to commit a greater number of patients than they can reasonably house, and many more than they can even pretend to care for.
Metaphor for prisons. Especially private for-profit prisons. A cautionary statemnt. And Pueblo--certainly as it was when I visited it.
