[kortilla]

Right, you’ll see pockets of individual corruption but that doesn’t account for why there is a systemic overpopulation. Unless you are suggesting every judge is on the take, in which case no amount of law reform will matter without first removing all of the judges.

[sillystuff]

I am suggesting that this example of corruption is evidence that there is sufficient profit in private prisons to motivate efforts (legal and illegal) to affect policy.

E.g., private prisons likely spend at least as much in legal lobbying efforts to maintain high prison populations as they do in bribes.