Will use prisoners for renovations, construction- bill state and fail to pay prisoners. Lobby against shorter sentences, community corrections, describe prisons as country clubs, recreation programs for prisoners, and so forth. Many build even though the state does not ask them to do so. If you build them, the state will fill them. The chief executive of Corrections Corporation America, the largest firm, is a former Republican Party Chairman, likens profiting from prisons to selling cars, or hamburgers.
Power is divided in prisons-inmates, custodial staff, treatment staff, education, etc.