There are plenty of scientists that express this same skepticism in regards to both the companies that produce medical products and the institutions that regulate them, and for good reason, http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015…

Before they were a thing? Private companies have been involved in imprisonment since just after the Civil War when slavers needed a new source of labor, or more accurately, a new method of slavery. But the prison boom was in the 1980's with Reagan and the War on Drugs. In 1984, CCA took over a facility in Tennessee…

They would rather spend make the money on incarceration than social support.