> I agree, but there's another way to think about this: every prison is for profit. Even publicly owned prisons have to contract out and outsource a lot of the

> I agree, but there's another way to think about this: every prison is for profit. Even publicly owned prisons have to contract out and outsource a lot of the services they need. Private companies supply food, maintenance, cleaning, IT, supplies, construction, architecture and so on. Private companies also benefit from the cheap to free forced labor they get from government-owned prisons, as well. There are layers to the grift that lines the pockets of private interests in the prison industry, and those layers certainly don't end at whether a prison is privately owned or not.