Not enough inmates? Create more laws for people to break.
Job security for federal officials. Job security for for-profit prisons.
They must maintain a steady flow of criminals. If not, then just create more laws or ‘administrative’ as they said... voila... former law abiding citizens are now inmates and the expensive cots in the for-profit prison now have a ‘customer’.
What it boils down to is that we are ALL criminals, the only distinction is between indicted and UNindicted criminals. There is NO possible way to live in the USA today without breaking the law and I would say breaking it on a daily basis. In addition you may be thrown in jail for some trumped up charge that really is not a violation of any law. This is a dangerous situation and growing worse daily. The only thing preventing a blowup is that so many people don’t seem to realize just how bad the situation is. There are a lot of people who are considered pillars of their communities and rightfully so who would be astounded to learn that they break the law on a regular basis without any knowledge of the fact. To listen to the rhetoric coming from left and right it seems that a lot of our supposed “leaders” have no interest whatsoever in correcting this problem, preferring instead to think up more reasons to throw people in prison.