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3. There have been a number of investigations

of for-profit prisons; the numbers have grown in the US and in Australia, UK, Scotland, and other countries. Their record is dismal all over the world. In the US they spend millions buying elected officials and some corrections officials actually own these private corporations. Of course their goal is to keep the prisons full at the least expense and bank on recidivism, so why would they have programs to help inmates rehabilitate back to freedom? The state contracts have reduced the amount the companies are required to spend on basic needs of the prisoners and the companies are making obscene profits.