Since the politicians see that they have the ability to cash in on the privatization of their local Correctional facilities it is difficult for them not be advocates for privatization. The politicians are blinded by the money they can make and they overlook the companies past records when it comes to escapes, assaults, prisoner misconduct, injuries to both inmates and gaurds, increases in costs per inmate from the original contracts, and finally impact to the communities the privatized facilities were located. Also what about the people hired to guard the inmates you once kept behind the walls. Just imagine knowing what you know now about Corrections and starting all over not as a Correction Officer but a guard for one of these private companies. First, you are no longer a sworn law enforcement officer you are a security guard.
Crime does pay.
The Tennessee-based company is the largest developer and manager of private correctional and detention facilities in the world. The bottom line does better with low paid employees. When prisoners become too costly, return them to public prisons. They have routinely transferred HIV and AIDS inmates from their facilities to state run facilities. Governments that have contracted with CCA complain about oversized bills, shady contract bids, inmate escapes, and employees charged with smuggling drugs into the prisons and jails.