In 2012, a Boise law firm sued on behalf of inmates contending that CCA had ceded control to prison gangs so that they could understaff the prison and save money on employee wages, and that the understaffing led to an attack by one prison gang on another group of inmates that left some of them badly injured.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/03/07/3067302/apnewsbreak-fbi-investigates-prison.html#storylink=cpy

Companies like this lobby heavily in State legislatures. The States even have to sign contracts which require that a high minimum of beds be filled, or the State will actually have to pay for the empty beds anyway. That, of course, leads to pressures on law enforcement to get out there and bust someone for some damn thing, so the State isn't made to look stupid when they pay the company for imprisoning inmates who aren't there.

Canada said that, "public-run prisons had measurably better outcomes"

Israel doesn't have 'for profit' prisons either. Their Supreme Court ruled that privately run prisons are unconstitutional, finding that "for the State to transfer authority for managing the prison to a private contractor whose aim is monetary profit would severely violate the prisoners' basic human rights to dignity and freedom."

The penal corporatists are hand-in-hand with the corrupt politicians trying to incarcerate more and more of the populace.

While the real criminals own 99% of the wealth and get away with murder.

I think they would enjoy gladiator school

* must have been a lot of cruel & unusual punishment that happened in the for-profit "Gladiator School"

The state has been tea party happy for many years now, the assholes seem to use us as practice and the people buy it hook, line and sinker. Maybe if they can find out if Otter was involved and bust him as well, that would make my day.