> have actually been required to maintain a minimum number of prisoners. All prisons are required to maintain a certain minimum population to justify their ope

> have actually been required to maintain a minimum number of prisoners. All prisons are required to maintain a certain minimum population to justify their operating budget. At any rate the entire debate of public versus private prisons is laughably flawed because even public prisons are reliant upon commercial service vendors that cater specifically to the prison industry at ludicrously inflated rates to both inmates and tax payers. And both prison types are known to make use of inmates as cheap commercial labor which undervalues the inmates and robs the local economy of manual labor jobs.