Prisons around the nation are growing, and there needs to be a new trend of either getting these inmates out of the prisons, or at least putting them to work so that they are not wasting tax payer dollars. A big future trend that should be implemented in all of our nation’s prisons is work. If more and more inmates are coming into the prisons then they should make themselves useful. Prisoner these days sit around all day and have nothing to do and this can cause a lot of problems within the correctional facility because the inmates get bored. Work programs would be an ideal way for inmates to spend their time. Instead of an inmate sitting in his or her cell for eight hours, why can’t they spend that time working? Work programs can help inmates get used to working and develop job skills and work ethics. This can give inmates the courage and help they need to be confident in the fact that they can find work when they get out of prison. Industry programs can also be very cost effective for the prisons. If prisons where to start their own wood working shops or automotive shops that could bring their own income in then it would take a lot off from the tax payers’ dollars. It is not right for a normal law abiding citizen to have to pay for a criminals meals in prison. Prisoners get treated to well these days and that is a reason why the incarceration rate is growing. To some if not most of the inmates don’t mind being in prison because they get fed and they don’t have to worry about anything in the outside world.