Re: You know your prison population is too high...
You have a reading comprehension problem. I've seen studies about costs and there is conflicting data on what is more cost effective. My point, however, was never about "costs." It was about the incentive to have more and more prisoners every year. As a private business, private prisons have to grow every year to maintain profitability, like all private business must do. It is a perverse system that has an incentive to lock more and more people away every year to make money. THAT was my point.