"The prison bed guarantees range between minimums of 70 percent occupancy in a California prison to 100 percent occupancy requirements at some Arizona prisons. Most of the contracts had language mandating that at least 90 percent of prison beds be filled."
"A private prison in Arizona recently sued the state for having a lack of prisoners. For the sake of saving over $16 million in back pay, the state settled by paying the private prison $3 million. Arizona essentially payed a company $3 million because not enough people are committing crimes."
http://wondergressive.com/private-prison-sues-state-wins-more-prisoners/
"Private Prison Sues State for Not Having Enough Prisoners"
These private companies just using the state and the state is allowing it. The company screams broke, create a b******t story how the state screwed them with funds thus laying off. Less cops means chaos in the prisons, they advertise the chaos to the public so we can squeeze more money out of you and hire the cops back.
Its all a business, he probably got killed, if he was still fighting with legal battles. Taking his own life is the last thing but i guess we will never know but look at things as a whole.