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Why would a for-profit business not want repeat customers?
Also most prisons the world over are not for profit businesses.
...and the home of the brave!
Play ball!
For-profit prison inmates are more like slaves than customers.
Excellent point, slave labour can be another revenue stream
They're the product.
How are they the product? Okay, apparently some american prisons make you pay for the privilege of being in a cage, but I believe that using 'forced labor' (euphemism for slavery) is their main source of $$$.