On 2009-05-11, Mack A Damia > wrote:

> He also told me that Barbara Bush and other politico-types own
> sizeable portions of the enterprise.
>
> Explosion in prison construction in the 80s and 90s - explosion in
> arrests for, say, minor drug offenses during the same period.

This due to incarceration having become a profit based business as opposed
to merely a necessary social evil. Can't make no money if them prisons
aren't full. :|

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