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Can these federal private prisons just start accepting state inmates? Thereby remaining profitable?

• duskwuff 10y ago
  No. These facilities are privately operated, but are owned by the federal government. The operators can't choose to turn them into state prisons, no more than they could choose to turn them into hotels.
  • ojbyrne 10y ago
    At the risk of sounding frivolous, there are numerous prisons that have been turned into hotels. http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/10/30/incarcer-vacations-11-prison-turned-hotels/ http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/10/30/incarcer-vacations-...
    • azernik 10y ago
      The government can choose to do that (in those cases, sell off the property). Not private prison operators. The issue of property rights, not the inherent concepts.
    • madaxe_again 10y ago
      And one Olympic village turned into a prison - Tahoe.
• r00fus 10y ago
  I'm sure that's on their radar in terms of contingency planning, but it shouldn't be a surprise - looks like sentencing policy changes in the past years (thanks Obama, for reals) have reduced the inmate population, and this is an adjustment to those policies. I sure hope Hillary will continue this good work.