As a civil servent I have a fairly unique prespective on how good a business entity the government can be(lousy)
also as someone who many many times almost end up in prison ,I have a understanding how jail happy the government can be.
but a for profit system in prison is not a very good idea.
my state has a prison economy and we`re paying for that mistake right now .
the end result for all this is more prisoners
note nothing is designed to lower the prison population