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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: how does a private prison operate differently from a state or a federally funded prisons?
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Private prisons have an incentive to cut corners in order to pass the savings on to their investors. This often means less experienced, less-well-trained security personnel, worse food, higher prisoner to guard ratios, less ability to accommodate special needs of prisoners, less maintenance, less investment in prisoner reform programs, less ability to investigate and address crimes committed within prison, etc..

Prisons are already a system which encourages dehumanization and the pressures of doing more with less make it even easier to treat prisoners less humanely. This results in greater harm to people serving time, greater risk to those supervising them, and greater risk of ex-prisoners committing new crimes when they leave.