y proper authorities" (http://www.rppi.org/prison/)
             Besides the corporate heads that might see dollar signs present in the use of prisons as revenue-makers, there are other sound reasons proponents of a private prison system would point out. The cost of building a prison, paying the guards, and using public money for food, health and education for the inmates is no small amount. "CCA charges Harris County, Texas, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service only $35.25 per inmate per day to operate a 350-bed minimum security facility in Houston, a charge that includes recovery of the cost of building the facility. Operating costs for government-run prisons can be twice that amount, even without taking construction and land costs into account" (http://www.ncpa.org/w/w82.html). In principle, this would allow governments to either reduce taxes or funnel tax money into other programs.
             Critics of this idea would believe, especially in the early stages, that a private company might lie about the true costs and would then underbid their competi
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