National embarrassment of prison company lobbyists with malign influence over government officials | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Free massages, fancy dinner banquets, and luxurious dinner cruises: These are just a few of the ways in which private prison-company executives woo government officials at industry-sponsored events, says a new report to be released today by In the Public Interest (ITPI), a policy group in Washington, D.C. For decades, for-profit prison companies have become a…