With an eye on maximizing quarterly profits, privately run facilities are even less inclined than state-run prisons to treat their involuntary customers humanely, skimping on health care and anything else that could hurt their bottom line, particularly programs aimed at reducing recidivism. As the ACLU noted in a report released late last year, “Not only is there little incentive to spend money on rehabilitation, but crime, at least in one sense, is good for private prisons: the more crimes that are committed, and the more individuals who are sent to prison, the more money private prisons stand to make. [Charles Davis -- source]

Exactly.

Humans have been turned into commodities. We are assessed and then operated on by an institution which by design destroys all notions of humanity and the common good.

Prisoners adjudicated by an industrial "justice" system (enriching judges and lawyers to be sure) lose hope.

All prisons should have Dante's words inscribe in stone above the entrance:

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.

All hope abandon ye who enter here.

But these institutions -- corporations -- also treat patients needing medical treatment, children needing competent education, communities needing electricity, or dependent adults as simple disembodied numbers on a balance sheet (which they forward to the NYSE.)

They demand that actual people serve them without conscience, sacrifice their dignity and their autonomy, waste their resources and have their voices muted or drown out. Corporations demand individual people relinquish the very essence of their humanity: their ability to make the world a better place.

The sole justification for these and other grotesqueries?

A healthy revenue stream.

That's it, the entire raison d'etre of a corporation. Products and services are merely the means to that end.

We -- citizens -- have a simple choice.

We can demand an end to corporate rule.

Or we can allow them to continue to exploit us using these "legal" institutions able to direct more resources than a small city to accomplish a financial or political goal (including the "election" of suitably compliant representatives).

These institutions can drive out competition, spend fortunes for positive legal outcomes (for shareholders and managers only), poison their products, dump waste and refuse in otherwise pristine areas, or even massacre human beings with impunity.

Yet people continue to advocate further empowerment of these monsters raping and cannibalizing the body politic. Still people insist that more "freedom" for these behemoths, less tax burdens (they don't pay anyway) to fuel the economic engine of capitalism, fewer regulations so they can unleash their worst depredations, and rewarded with obscenely extravagant incentives for overseers and managers all for these so-called "job providers."

They've even nominated Gordon Gecko for the presidency.

Corporations not only aren't people, they're legal fictions operating as amoral cartels. They eviscerate the common good and, worse, destroy even the earth itself, piece by piece.

Enough!