Quote:It's not so much government employees anymore. it used to be, but now in most states the government enters into contracts with private companies to build and run the prisons. The states say we will give you said amount of money per inmate to incarcerate them and operate the prison. The company then incarcerates people at a much lower cost per inmate in turn producing huge profit at the taxpayers expense. Get rid of the inmates that are there on weed charges and there goes 70% of your profit. Those companies lobbyist's make legalization or decriminalization very hard to achieve.