Corecivic Inc NYSE: CXW. The market definitely anticipates more profit for the largest private jailer in the counter, post election.

I think there is a very tribal incentive with elected district attorneys who should instead by nominated by the local executive, with advise and consent by the legislative body. Making a prosecutor be a politician pretty clearly is itself a conflict of interest.

There might be some improvement, but how much can be gained by shuffling things around? The U.S. is a democracy and prosecutors are aggressive because it's what the people want. If we shift that power to a local executive, committing to nominate hardline prosecutors will become a typical campaign promise (similar to our current situation with presidents and supreme court justices).

I think the only real fix is education.

All that's true. But voters deserve a lot of the criticism. It's true that DAs run up the score to run for higher office. But voters vote for that.

DAs didn't pass Three Strikes. Voters did.

There's plenty of blame to go around...congress for taking away the power of judges to actually, you know, judge with mandatory minimums, the public , for choosing to believe anecdotal stories of boogeymen over statistics, our political system for letting voters decide judges and DA's (who run on such attributes as number of years sentenced/convicted) and culture that values punishment and retribution over rehabilitatoin

At the very least (I think? I'm Australian so not intimately familiar with US law) the public sector can't lobby/sue the government for infringing upon their business when laws are changed or relaxed.