I just found the investopedia link you was referring to and it makes a lot of sense in the business aspect of keeping bed full and keep a returning population in rotation. After reading this article, it’s almost ironic that America refers to itself as the land of the “Free”. If the incarcerated per capita stats are true and correct and the way things keep going with our justice system, then America should refer to itself as the Land of the Incarcerated.

You’re are correct. The profits are only kept by keeping people incarcerated. Especially through private corporations that the government hires i.e the GEO private facilities here in Florida. If the main and true objective is to “actually” rehabilitate inmates, then essentially and theoretically these private prison corporations will eventually work themselves out of a job and the corporation will not grow or expand. Just the economics alone in private prisons asks for lobbyists and lawmakers to create and enforce more laws and stricter laws. Imo, there really no true “rehabilitation” in private prisons. They need you back in their prison in order to keep making money and to expand their corporation/business. They may save the government money but the government would save more money by actually increasing rehabilitated inmates. Anyways here is a link to what I Googled about how private prisons make their money and how that money conflicts with actual justice and rehabilitation.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/062215/business-model-private-prisons.asp

Haha! I see what you did there. Or maybe you didn’t do it on purpose. LOL

That is one of the episodes. I’m not sure if that is the exact one but yes it’s one of those episodes. I don’t have enough data to watch the whole thing but it Definitely looked familiar.

Is this the movie you are talking about?

The big house | Prison Documentary | Atlanta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvtyqC-c5-M&list=PLbv3w1WAiZF0KoFqMsPbibjreIf3gZDMI

According to invesropedia.com, these facilities enter into a contract with government, wether state or federal I am unsure. At $150.00 per day, given the length of time of incarceration, that’s a lot of money.

I just watched a documentary on how prison systems are becoming privatized/corporations and making money on beds filled. How they actually make money is beyond me but that’s what I gathered. The documentary was on dish network on ch. 249, the show was called “The Big House”. In some sense this is a new form of slavery except that in most cases the inmates do not perform hard labor for a cheap work force. However, bodies in beds create some kind of revenue.