“”The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws.”
– Corrections Corp. of America Annual Report, 2010
Anyone who even tangentially follows the travesty that is America’s criminal justice system knows that privately owned prison corporations are gaining a deeper foothold in our nation’s prisons. The private prison industry lobbies politicians, donates to campaigns of pro-privatization candidates, supports the ongoing War on Drugs, and has helped to shape criminal justice policies like California’s three-strikes law. High incarceration rates insure greater profits for the private prison industry.” Read the full article.