This story is ignored by the media. Public prison industries answer to the public whereas private prison companies answer to shareholders. And those shareholders are corporations which lobby to lawmakers. One of the largest private prison company is Corrections Corporation of America which was connected to the Texas indictment of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2008(District Attorney Juan Guerra accused Cheney and Gonzales of engaging in organized criminal activity of a privately run federal jail).
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