Prisons are now profit-making institutions for investors and for those very people entrusted with their administration such as judges and prosecutors. Judges and prosecutors are "profiting" from mandated sentencing programs.

The drug laws have opened up immensely profitable avenues for these elements. Mandated "Alcohol Education" and "Drug Diversion Programs" are owned by the very judges and prosecutors who make sure the person arrested is forced to enroll in them.
QUESTION? HOW CAN A JUDGE BE IMPARTIAL WHEN HE IS ALLOWED TO PROFIT FROM HIS VERDICT.

In addition, the state is making immense profits from the forced labor of the inmates. The "vendors" and "contractors" who build, maintain, and supply the prisons are making huge shameful profits from the prison industry. This is putting pressure on law enforcement agencies to devise more and more "police entrapment schemes" in order to be able to incarcerate more and more citizens.