It "works" in Florida. The incarceration rates are 200 per 100,000 more than Western states (and that's lower than many other southern states). That's 40,000 extra people in prisons. Portland has an estimated 5000 people living on the street. So, there's your solution if you want to go there. And, since the southern states won't even hold a vote on whether incarcerated can be forced to work (some call that slavery) you get the benefit of extra revenue from companies that don't mind hiring "criminals."<p>As a recent transplant to Florida, this was all news to me. And, very discomforting.