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Private prisons comprising a much smaller percentage of inmates than people realize.[0]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

Now do private companies providing the phone call service. Now do commissary. Now the computers where you pay per minute to write and read emails. Now do UNICOR (like forced labor for McDonalds Corporation who has UNICOR do the CAD work for their franchise store remodels all the way to CAD work being done on the new World Trade Center).

I've done that research, and companies like JPay have incredible monopolies, and make a good amount of money.

But that isn't what people refer to, and not the point I made. The common misconception is that private prisons themselves are the issues. Sure, the ancillaries are terrible, but relatively small by comparison. Sure, the government isn't providing those services, so private companies stepped in and monopolized. Regardless, they are providing a service for money. Not as shocking and horrible as it's made out to be.

Turns out that every problem can be solved with one more level of indirection also works for privatization.

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