Lock "Em Up: US Prison System Considerations

[Jimbone]

But wide scale arrests to fill up the prisons for a profit motive? Way too expensive... even for corruption.

There are those who believe otherwise and plenty of info (or propaganda?) suggesting that the private sector corporations are steadily gaining more influence and contributing financially to various governmental legislative departments with the profit-motive of harsher and longer sentences. But, I have yet to read anything that proves that assertion.

I hope you're right.

I just think the number of skids that have to be greased to make wholesale arrests profitable would be cost prohibitive. Beat cops, supervisors, brass, judges, jurors... everyone would have to get a taste to make it work.

I readily admit I could be wrong on that, as I have no idea how much money is really able to be made by private sector prisons.