Less than 10% of prisoners are in private prisons - getting rid of private prisons would have little impact on support for the drug war. https://en.wikipedia.o

Less than 10% of prisoners are in private prisons - getting rid of private prisons would have little impact on support for the drug war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison Which isn't to say that public sector unions and companies that supply material to prisons, or built prisons don't all support polices that incarcerate more and more people. (For example, the CA prison worker union spends more on political lobbying than all other labor unions in CA.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_Officers_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_...