Perhaps throwing people in prison for pot smoking isn't as lucrative as it once was?

They are owned by the corporations so where do the prisoners go if they are closed?
Also what do the corporations do with the empty facilities?

Seems the only option is for the corporations to sell the prisons, nicely packed with a full complement of active prisoners, to the government.

Some of those former prison buildings will need to be repurposed or torn down.

Maybe The Donald can turn them into resorts.

Walk away with fistfuls of cash and leave the taxpayers holding the bag.

Stop the war on drugs and the war on poor people and find out that we do not need so many prison cells.

One of the worst thing about the private prison industry creates a powerful lobby to criminalize personal behavior, harsh mandatory sentencing.

Thanks to a fellow member of the Grammar Police force -- whose motto is: "To Correct and Serve" -- please allow me to re-post this here:

"Boo Hoo!" is not hyphenated, however "Boo-Fucking-Hoo!" is hyphenated.

Questions? See me after class.

Also known as privatizing profit and publically subsidizing private infrastructure

Not to mention converting idle prisoners into highly profitable slave laborers

That's an excellent first step to prison/sentencing reform in the US!

One of the dumbest ideas ever.

They deserve it. They could have done a decent job and not squeezed every penny at the expense of quality of service.

They chose otherwise and are reaping exactly what they've sown.

Prisons for profit make an absolute mockery of our justice system.

They are an abomination, similar to for profit healthcare.

The fact that people have a profit driven entity making money off people being incarcerated is morally reprehensible.
Now if only we can de-escalate the war on drugs.
Maybe then we can give up the incarceration capital of the world title.

Don't let the door hit your greedy asses on the way out!

and be prosecuted for abuse of human rights, oops, I forgot the U$ OF A has not ratified the Human Rights Treaty, written by the way largely by Eleanor Roosevelt.