Psychiatric techniques are highly amendable to the prison environment. In fact, it seems unlikely that prisons could function as well as they do today without the widespread use of antipsychotics as a tool of tranquilization. This accords with how they were originally used in the asylum system as well. Today, COs are receiving training in trauma-centric care; some training manuals even concede that the majority of prisoners have experienced trauma or deprivation and that they would be unlikely to have ended up in prison without these factors. Remarkably, the belief that prisoners acted out of compulsion or in response to factors outside of their control does not convince prison wardens or politicians that continuing to lock them up is an unconscionable act of brutality, but rather that trauma-centric therapeutics could serve as a more reliable means of crowd management. Psychiatric knowledge and techniques do not threaten the prison-industrial complex; they have become crucial components of its structure. Anne E. Parsons has noted that, during efforts to close prisons, officials have even claimed that it would be cruel to decarcerate, because they offer needed psychiatric treatments. Psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, and clinical psychologists have long been embedded in the system and have yet to meaningfully contribute to alternatives to incarceration. At most, some have expressed professional frustration over jurisdictional control: we want the disturbed and depressives, you keep the violent thugs. But for the most part, professionals in these fields have been comfortable contributing their expertise to make the prisons function better. Perhaps this contribution arises out of the desire to ameliorate some suffering, but the experts have yet to commit themselves to changing the conditions that produce it.