Prison Nation, USA

It’s no secret that the United States not only has the highest number of citizens in prisons per capita than any other country in the world, we also have, by a wide margin, the highest number of citizens locked away in prison as well.

What may not be so well known is just how many prisons in the U.S. these days are private, for-profit prisons. Imagine that? A company based on the premise that it would go broke if people started being, well, you know, rehabilitated.

If judges miraculously began coming up with more creative ways to, gasp, start coming up with other ways to actually reform ne’er-do-wells and help criminals whose crimes in no involve damage to anyone else’s person or property, those prisons, and all the rich people that have invested in them or sit on their board of directors would lose a whole lot of money if…