Private Prisons and Immigrants

Last week in the Texas Tribune an article was posted called Advocacy Groups Target Private Prisons for Immigrants. This caught my eye because I have written a paper on the subject of private prisons in the past. For those that are unaware of the subject The United States incarcerates more people, not just per capita but in total population, than any other country in the world. We also are one of the few nations that use privately ran prisons to keep a percentage of these prisoners. Here in Texas there are a handful of private prisons that have discovered a "niche" for incarcerating undocument immigrants that are arrested. The article is about a group that is calling on congress to reject funding that would increase these prisons capacity. I believe this issue is important for a variety of reasons most importantly, should sending people to prison that profit on its incarceration rate be a business model?