Prison guard unions are public safety unions. They aren't lobbying to get politicians to choose their prison service, their company. They're unions of governmen

Prison guard unions are public safety unions. They aren't lobbying to get politicians to choose their prison service, their company. They're unions of government workers. The competitor would be private prisons. > Is there is any evidence that they are lobbying for more Prison guard unions regularly lobby against marijuana legalization. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/marijuana/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/marijuana/ They lobby for prison expansion, more prisons. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/california-prison-guards_n_3894490.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/california-prison-g... They lobby against parole. http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/22/what-does-it-mean-that-public-sector-pri http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/22/what-does-it-mean-that-pub... Obviously most of this is at the state level. I live in CA and know more about CA. We have private prisons, just fewer. https://www.privateprisonnews.org/state/CA/ https://www.privateprisonnews.org/state/CA/