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A for-profit model is perhaps the only thing that could make prisons worse. Maybe not the only one, but it ranks pretty high among the things that could
It already is, it already does.
And yes: prisoners are effectively paying customers. A good business owner wants to retain them for as long as possible, and make sure they come back.