Why were military prisons during the civil war not constructed very well? no one thought the war would last very long. most prisoners did not have to be there long. it was felt prisoners did not deserve better ones. both sides ran out of money to build good prisons.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.