Private prisons are incentive disasters. Everyone can see that. You are correct to note that public prisons are just as bad. Prison guards, companies that supp

Private prisons are incentive disasters. Everyone can see that. You are correct to note that public prisons are just as bad. Prison guards, companies that supply public prisons, police, firms that contract prison laborers, etc., are just as greedily pro-incarceration as private prison shareholders. From this position of wisdom, what is the optimal communication with people who are against mass incarceration and excessively anti-privatization? Is it to attack them for being ideologically blinded? Or try to convince and coalesce with our natural allies? If someone is ignorant of a truth that is plain to you, you get to decide if they are a friend or an enemy.