Market rates are not arbitrary numbers that exist in a vacuum. All economic actors contribute to the market, and they are the result of competition and how low the producers are able to get and still make a living. Some are a bit higher, some are a bit lower. If the prison can always go as low as any other producer and out-compete farms that can't use slave labour to stay artificially competitive, then it will eat the market share of these farms, which will progressively go bankrupt, and the only thing that will stop the prison from eventually owning the entire market is the number of people that get convicted of some crime and jailed there.
This is why these corporations lobby/fight so hard to keep the prison industry private. Their profits are obscene, and the only way to keep themselves profitable is to ensure a steady supply of slaves ahem I mean "criminals". The more people we put in jail the better it is for these companies.
Can you imagine that? Your company profits off of human misery, suffering, and destroying families/lives. I hope hell exists..
A whole bunch of your comments have been badly breaking the HN guidelines by being uncivil and by using the site for political and ideological battle, which is destructive of what HN is for. We ban accounts that do these things, so would you please not do them anymore?
(I'm replying to this one because it's your most recent comment, not because it's the worst of them, though it is the sort of overheated rant we don't want here, regardless of how correct the underlying point is.)
The prison industry is, overwhelmingly, not private. This farm in particular in run by the Colorado Correction Industry, a division of the Colorado Department of Corrections, not a private company.
