> None of it is encouraged by the private industry I don't know how you can make this claim when you even admit in the very next sentence that the prisons get

> None of it is encouraged by the private industry I don't know how you can make this claim when you even admit in the very next sentence that the prisons get kickbacks... an obvious incentive to keep gouging the prices? Then, I don't have any idea how you then turn it into a conversation about higher taxes? As if when someone is being exploitative but the taxpayers should make up the difference between the grift and how it should be? How does any of what you are saying make any sense? I am just misunderstanding your point here?