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[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The government would have got a payday when they sold off the prisons in the first place.

[โ€“] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Perhaps. But I think many of the private prisons are either built from the ground up by the corporations, or the buildings are still owned by the government, but the companies are paid to operate them for the government.