2.3 Million Americans Rot in Prison — Meet the Corporations Exploiting Them for Profit

The prison industry is more lucrative than you think.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/23-million-americans-rot-prison-meet-corporations-exploiting-them-profit?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/how-prisons-change-the-balance-of-power-in-america/280341/