FIX CAPITALISM.
FIX THE AMERICAN DREAM.™

When a private company runs a prison as a business, the ethical baseline for how inmates should be treated can easily be shuttered down on the list of priorities. If the main concern is stockholder dividends, then it's far too easy to replace the primary goal of rehabilitation with the primary goal of financial gain. A profit-driven model can then lead to negative outcomes that seriously impact the prisoners, their families, and the rest of us.