Private Prison System costs you big, big money.

http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/prison-pay-to-play-system-is-costing-you-big-big-money-execs-making-millions/

Prison systems should not be money makers.  That only encourages throwing innocent or marginally guilty people in jail.

Business is booming if you’re in the prison business. Since 1980, the private prison industry has grown an astounding 1700 percent, making some business executives exceedingly wealthy along the way.
It’s also destroyed families and cost taxpayers their livelihoods.
Watch this segment with Thom Hartmann which explores what can be done to turn the tide of the growing prison menace in the United States.