You have to wonder if every private prison is at some point going to be motivated to keep it's client stock active - in prison that is.

The movie "The Last Emperor" had an intersting bit of the plot where the emperor was being re-educated in a Maoist detention camp of some sort. No praise of Maoism here, just the story, who knows how true it was but it's illustrative of my point. The emperor was jaded and weak, could barely tie his own shoes and when the central guard/re-educator figure noticed that the emperor's former attendant was still behaving as though the emperor needed having his shoes put on, the guard took steps to introduce some actual manhood to the emperor.

Later in the film, the emperor was working semi-anonomously as a gardener and saw the guard who he'd come to respect being herded through the streets by cultural revolution thugs in the 60s. The emperor tried to stop them with "No, he's a good man!" to no avail. Again, probably pure fiction but I'm sure people like that have lived and worked.

How much is a private prison ever going to be concerned with actual rehabilitation?

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