Judy Green, a prison policy analyst says:

“The very first
contract
for the first private prison in America
went to CCA, from INS.”

Hear her in this video

Private Prisons-Commerce in Souls by Grassroots Leadership
that explains the private prison trade of public safety for private profit:

A local leader once called private prisons “good clean industry”.
Does locking up people for private profit sound like “good clean industry” to you?
Remember, not only is the U.S. the worst in the world for locking people up
(more prisoners per capita and total than any other country in the world),
but Georgia is the worst in the country, with

1 in 13 adults in the prison system.
And private prisons

don’t save money and
they

don’t improve local employment.
As someone says in the video, who wants to live in a prison colony?

We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Spend that tax money on rehabilitation and education.

-jsq

PS: Owed to Jeana Brown.