California Correctional Peace Officers Association and Correction Officers Benevolent Association are playing the same game and are not exactly private organizations and exert far more influence over individual politicians than either private corporation does. The first makes political donations across the country.

We also by no means blame the prison industry; public or private; for this outcome. Its a government industry through and through, from police, to prosecutors, public defenders, judges, and even the supply chain benefits.

* besides this is nothing but a Rubio hit piece which tells you it basically is pushed by operatives in the Democrat party, a party which basically does even more in most states to keep people in jail. They even fought Republicans in NY over a law to make it not criminal for a certain amount of pot