Gaming the System explores how private prison companies may try to present themselves as solely meeting existing demand for prison beds and responding to current market conditions, but they have in fact worked over the past decade to create markets for their services. As revenues of private prison companies have grown over the past decade, the companies have had more resources with which to build political power, and they have used this power to promote policies that lead to higher rates of incarceration.

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