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Shares of GEO group, the second-largest private prison firm, also fell by more than 45% during that time.

"Bottom line: is it a riot?" asks the head of private prison firm Securamax as staff officer Tom Oliver and deputy commissioner Charles Inglis survey real-time footage of what looks a lot like a prison riot.

Senators questioned Wansley Walters, the secretary of the Florida DJJ, and heard testimony from others who called for the state to end its contracts with the private prison firm.

During the tours, guards employed by GEO, the private prison firm that runs the Karnes facility, deliberately isolated inmates suspected of participating in the hunger strike to prevent them from speaking with inspectors.

He lobbied for the Corrections Corporation of America, the leading private prison firm that saw homeland security as a business opportunity; HCA, the hospital and health care chain that had pleaded guilty to dozens of fraud charges and agreed to pay a record $1.7 billion to Perry's former employer, the DOJ; and defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

With Wall Street money, the larger prison firms lobby hard for the government to fund new prisons, create more prisoners, and employ more prison guards.

The move, widely welcomed by reformers, and which caused an immediate slump in the share value of the largest for-profit prison firms in the country, came close on the heels of a damning report which concluded that conditions in privately run facilities were far less safe than those in publicly run prisons.

Instead, shackles were placed around her ankles, wrists, and waist, and she was taken to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, a for-profit immigrant-detention facility operated by the GEO Group, a large private-prison firm.

The size of America's incarcerated population more than quadrupled in the three decades since 1980, and, in time, the private sector seized an immensely lucrative opportunity; between 1990 and 2009, the number of inmates in private prisons increased seventeen-fold, and revenues for the largest private-prison firm, Corrections Corporation of America (C.C.A ., reached $1.7 billion.

The Saguaro Correctional Center named after a cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and based in the small town of Eloy is run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), recently renamed CoreCivic, the country's largest private-prison firm.

"It's a media event for the local sheriff's department," said Bob Barker, president of the Bob Barker Company of Fuquay Varina, N.C., the nation's leading prison-supplies firm.