[jansen]

Good start! I just wish this change would be happening for the right reasons, e.g. that privately held prisons are creating a false incentive, an incentive to be more profitable by having more prisoners and thus the creation of a lobby for such thing.

[tptacek]

If you look, I think you'll find very little evidence of that actually happening. Further, state-run prisons create as much if not more incentive, in the form of public sector unions.

[r_smart]

It is curious how overlooked the money unions dump into lobbying is. They are spending massive amounts of money lobbying DC, but nobody seems to talk about it. The people that complain about companies who run private prisons lobbying congress never have a thought for say, the corrections officers' union, doing the same. Why?