Quote:I was not aware of private companies running federal prisons.  That is certainly a conflict of interest.

 

Yeah there has been sweeping changes in the prison system. There are still prisons that are government controlled at state and federal levels but the majority are not. The privatization of prisons has continued to grow because simply, it is big business. The companies make more money from full prisons, plain and simple. They also cash in on supplying work forces that are essentially slaves to perform contract work as you can see by the crews on the sides of the roads and such. This in turn hurts legitimate companies that provide those same services because of course they can't compete with free as a wage for their employees. As I said, if you can't lock up weed smokers these systems lose an average of 70% of their money makers.

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