a truly disturbing new report from the justis policy institutes shows just how depraved some privately-owned prisons have becomed. they are using campaign conry bugss, lobbying and relationships to increase prison populations. the report says quote over the years the political strategies allowed private prison companies to promote policies that lead to higher rates of incarceration and thus greater profit margins for their company. you better believe that s true since the year 2000 the number held in private facilities increased about 120%. now you got to remember at that same time period of total number of people in prison increased only 16%. so it is a much bigger market for the private prisons. gee, bieneder how that happened. it is all leading to big time profits. in 2010 the two largest private companies, corrections corporation of america which sounds scary and geo group brought under over $2.9 billion