Don’t forget the kickbacks that judges definitely aren’t getting on the back end to send more people to prison, not to mention the outright bribery these prisons are using to “lobby” politicians to expand and maintain mandatory minimums to keep the beds full. Also, they don’t just rent out the labour. The government literally pays them per-bed-filled.
Don’t forget the kickbacks that judges definitely aren’t getting on the back end to send more people to prison, not to mention the outright bribery these prisons are using to “lobby” politicians to expand and maintain mandatory minimums to keep the beds full. Also, they don’t just rent out the labour. The government literally pays them per-bed-filled.
Which leads to things like the Cash for Kids scandal.
It’s so evil that it wouldn’t pass as fiction.