Prison Industrial Complex - This comes as no surprise in a system that utilizes privatized prisons. Prisons for profit are fertile soil for corruption at the expense of all Americans. Our government incentivizes an increase in prison populations by privately contracting with prison corporations, and then that same government prosecutes those who engage in the very behavior it created. Who is the bigger hypocrite here? The solution has to be an end to a private, government-sponsored prison system.
Read more about this issue in an article by the New York Times.