Louisiana is the world's prison capital

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The high prison population was the impetus for the move to contracting prisons, not the other way around.   What the arrangement seems to do is to make there be more of an incentive for communities to have prisons. What's going on here can't really be called "private" because you are just moving the prison operation from the state level to the sheriffs, and the money being made is solely a matter of skimming the top off state funds.