What if someone opened a for-profit prison in the US that focused on rehabilitation? The prison could start by bidding on incarceration contracts for non-violen

What if someone opened a for-profit prison in the US that focused on rehabilitation? The prison could start by bidding on incarceration contracts for non-violent drug offenders. The prison could take notes from the Scandinavian system: * Humane housing * Counseling * Family visits * Emphasis on self-reliance To help reduce the costs of the prison, the inmates could produce something that is very labor intensive and hard to create without cheap labor. Farming? Food production? Laundering uniforms? QA testing for large software companies? (Only half joking.) Without the political clout that the Corrections Corp of America has, I bet it would be difficult to bid for contracts, but it's a more realistic way of making a change than political pressure.