Comment Re: No Market (Score 2) 89
First, private prisons area only 8% of the prisons in the U.S., so if what you're claiming were true, then the other 92% wouldn't have the same issue, and yet they do.
Second, if you go look at the web sites of most states' prisons, they specify the same company as the sole provider for all of that state's prisons. It's not because they all independently chose that monopoly provider, but because the state prison officials mandated or did all of them.
When you see a difference is when the government officials responsible change, fine state to state, or from prisons to jails, because jails in most areas are run by a local government official, the sheriff or city police department, so they can make their own selection.
But while maybe there is an exception or two, it's almost always a government official making these decisions, not a private organization.
In short, you have no ideas what you're talking about here.