"Crime" being a larger and larger number of acts that really shouldn't be labeled as such. Like drug addiction, or paying various fines for things that ultimately amount to being poor.
Private for-profit prisons are fascistic, plain and simple. Collusion of government and private interests to institutionally exploit the people. In the pursuit of profit, the for-profit prison industry lobbies the government to increase the number of incarcerable offenses so they make more money incarcerating, under the guise of being "Tough On Crime". The officials that enact what the private prison lobby pushes for are predominantly of one political party in particular.