Correction Corporation of America

They lobby to keep people in jail for their profits. The whole reason they exist is to make sure private prisons thrive. For profit prisons that lobby against true reform and keep people in jail for things like selling a dimebag of weed. It’s no wonder America has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. It’s also no coincidence that the rate spikes when Reagan introduced legislation to privatize prisons. And then prisoners are treated in such a way as to virtually guarantee that they will come out worse, and get reincarcerated.

The scariest part – " The number of federal laws has risen from 3,000 in the early 1980s to over 4,450 by 2008. Many of these have poor intent requirements, meaning people are being locked up not to keep the rest of society safe, but for technical violations of laws they may not have known existed."