The problem is the perverse incentives, not who manages the prisons. Non-profit prisons can be just as badly run as for profit prisons. We need to change what

The problem is the perverse incentives, not who manages the prisons. Non-profit prisons can be just as badly run as for profit prisons. We need to change what we pay for - no more paying for each prisoner locked up, lets pay for each prisoner that avoids reoffending. We want people that come out of prison to not go around committing more crimes. For profit might help here in that they may try innovative approaches that achieve this aim - we just have to give them the right incentives.