In 1984 a newly formed company by the name of Corrections Corporation of America acquired the United States’ very first full corrections facility contract for the state of Tennessee. This would mark the first time in American history that a private for-profit corporation would take control of caring for the nation’s misguided and incarcerated. This new model for the country’s prison system over the next 28 years would expand its reach and power considerably taking over half of the country’s prison institutions and in turn lead to a six-fold increase of prisons and inmates in the United States of America.
And now all the state has to do is keep the prison 90% full and CCA will do the rest.
Ah hell, CCA will use their connections with politicians via groups like ALEC to just write more insane laws to guarantee the cells stay full. Piece o’ cake for them, I’m sure. Ugh.