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Lets see, you say the private correction facilities have power over law makers who make the laws and set sentences. Are you serious
From your site.
"The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the
relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and
sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are
currently proscribed by our criminal laws. For instance, any changes with respect
to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number
of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing
demand for correctional facilities to house them. Legislation has been proposed in
numerous jurisdictions that could lower minimum sentences for some non-
violent crimes and make more inmates eligible for early release based on good behavior.
Also, sentencing alternatives under consideration could put some offenders on
probation with electronic monitoring who would otherwise be incarcerated.
Similarly, reductions in crime rates or resources dedicated to prevent and enforce
crime could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and
sentences requiring incarceration at correctional facilities.
~ CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA 2010 ANNUAL REPORT
What on earth are you talking about? That's an internal report from a private prison company basically stating that reduced sentences, increased use of electronic monitoring and drug decriminalization, among other things, would lessen demand for their "product." Nowhere does that talk about the lobbying efforts by said private prison companies, which are detailed in the pdf I linked to.
Are claiming that the private prison companies don't lobby for harsher sentencing and against things like decriminalization of drugs?