After working over thirty years in the prison system of the state with the highest per capita income outside of DC I have to say that of the thousands of individuals and their families I came to know- I read all their files- no one was there for having poor morals, and I actually recognized their ‘criminality’ was a testament to their survival skills in a society unable to see them as human beings worthy of even having a name or identity. The ‘poor choices’ view wasn’t as pronounced in the early eighties as it was in nineties, when it was the grease that sold the ‘privatization’ of social service systems advanced of course by the ‘tough on crime’ posturing of political hacks and their corporate friends.