>it creates an incentive for them to lobby keeping drugs illegal. Does it? As far as I can tell it expands it but does not create it. This is an important di

>it creates an incentive for them to lobby keeping drugs illegal. Does it? As far as I can tell it expands it but does not create it. This is an important distinction because that incentive exists even with 100% public prisons. Even with public prisons, workers are prisons, any organizations that represent those workers, and any private organizations which supply the needs of prisons all have an incentive to expand prisons. >There are so many horror stories, like prisons saying that they'll close if they don't get some more prisoners. And if a public prison has to close, it will still be an issue for those who work there and those who supply it with goods. Even if they were guaranteed another job, which isn't likely common to begin with, would it be comparable in pay, duties, and commute time? In every country with prisons this incentive exists, so I think it would be worthwhile to looking at how other countries handle it.