"... Private prisons absolutely have influence on the sentencing of the prisoners they house.
"Not only do they have influence on how long a person stays in prison....they influence the minds of the people they house to ensure they do not and will change their criminal ways. Why would they want them to change?
"Do you think they have any incentive to take a 16, 17, 18, 19 or young person who did something stupid and show them the error of their ways? To them that person is $24.39 a day for the next 40, 50, 60 years."
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