We used to be able to afford to incarcerate lots of bad guys by outsourcing them to the L48, because it was cheap.  But then we had this great idea to build Goose Creek prison, and greatly increase the cost of incarcerating prisoners.  But now we are hurting for money and too self-serving and dumb to shut down Goose Creek and outsource the prisoners out of state.  So what do we do instead?  We let bad guys wander around wherever they want to go.  Welcome to the new paradigm for criminals, where punishment is not part of the equation.