I hate to keep having to drive things home with a goddam steam hammer, but don't you think the institutions and unions who are hauling in 96 percent of the billions that governments are spending on prisons might not have some small fucking incentive to increase the number of public prisons or the number of prisoners?

You've got the word "profit" jammed so far up your nose it's stuck in your forebrain. This isn't about "profit." It's about money. The more prisoners there are, the more money and political power devolves to the public prison system and the associated unions.

Again, it was the CCPOA, NOT the private prison companies that drove Proposition 184. This was the first response I made, with evidence, and you act like nobody said anything. Here's yet another articlewith more details than any rational person should need, although it's becoming pretty obvious you haven't looked at any of the others either.

Not only that, but the CCPOA was instrumental in preventing any reform of Three Strikes, like Proposition 66. Don't click that one either, but maybe somebody else will learn something.