Prison Overcrowding? Wonder why????

[packman]

[Thor_MN]

1. Got to keep the for-profit private prisons full by contract.

And an AG with a hard-on for Marijuana.

[atreides1]

2. Exactly

Especially when you own stock in the for-profit private prison industry...as it's rumored that the Keebler elf, does!!!

[janterry]

3. I suspect that the problem has a few more layers

Here's another take on why this might be more complicated than the pie chart suggests:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/02/mass_incarceration_a_provocative_new_theory_for_why_so_many_americans_are.html

[Orrex]

4. Yeah, but a disproportionate fraction of the population is black, so lawmakers don't care.

[Initech]

5. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$