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Private prisons lead to lobbying for harsher convictions to improve the bottom line of those prisons, that is why they often come up.

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So do police and prison guards' unions, and they're much larger: https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or....

Prison guard unions and private prisons are effectively the same thing. They are both groups that directly benefit by increasing the prison population.

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