@Flambe The stories are gruesome. It really is a profit-driven industry.

Even non-private prisons are a cash cow for states- the more prisoners they have, the more federal money comes into the state.

@scotter810 True.

My point is more toward Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex.

@aspecurian esienhower's speech
13 years before I was born isn't in my wheelhouse

@scotter810 I was like negative 30 years old when he made that speech lol