Prison Business

What's great is our service, keeping people locked up, is always in demand because our prisoners are repeat customers! It must be because we do an exceptional a job! 

Clipping from huffingtonpost.com article dated 04/10/2012

"And this is where it gets creepy," observes reporter Joe Weisenthal for Business Insider, "because as an investor you're pulling for scenarios where more people are put in jail." In making its pitch to potential investors, CCA points out that private prisons comprise a unique, recession-resistant investment opportunity, with more than 90 percent of the market up for grabs, little competition, high recidivism among prisoners, and the potential for "accelerated growth in inmate populations following the recession." In other words, caging humans for profit is a sure bet, because the U.S. population is growing dramatically and the prison population will grow proportionally as well, and more prisoners equal more profits. 

Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex

It's disgusting the moral upside-down language used to euphemize this kind of profiting. Turning a legal system into a taxpayer-funded 'correctional' slavery. We don't have enough jobs for these poverty stricken and foreigner population, so we'll have people with jobs pay us to keep them out of society so they have less competition!

Recidivate

v.

To return to a previous pattern of behavior, especially to return to criminal habits.

What's great is our service, keeping people locked up, is always in demand because our prisoners are repeat customers! It must be because we do an exceptional a job!

Wait, no your job was to deter people from committing crimes and readjust criminals from their unlawful behavior.

Hey, we think of ourselves as optimists! Why get down about the recession, when you can focus on the positives... like more prisoners to grow our profit!