The U.S. government attorney also struggled to provide any information about the exact whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite Thursday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the Trump administration must bring him back.
“Where is he and under whose authority?” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked in a Maryland courtroom.
“I’m not asking for state secrets,” she said. “All I know is that he’s not here. The government was prohibited from sending him to El Salvador, and now I’m asking a very simple question: where is he?”
About the only incentive is that they are used as what amounts to slave labor. Gang members are put away for life and do hard labor. People who did crime but not violent crime are put away for years and are given “skills” training for when they get out.
Even then that’s kinda dubious. You don’t want your dangerous folks out there actually doing kind of important stuff that either risks them escaping or sabotaging or fucking up. There’s only so many useful jobs you can have maximum security prisoners doing, and they don’t tend to be ones that create a lot of value. I imagine that much of it is digging ditches and filling them back up again.