Knowing what I know today, I think there's real irony in the fact that Congress spent all that money to create and rebuild Iraq when it refuses to spend money that's needed in our own U.S. prison system——money to teach real life Improvement skills to men who really need it, for example. Not to mention the insane money our country waste on incarcerating people who could be dealt with, punished, in alternative ways.

— From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik (Page 126)