Discuss the factors related to the idea of using for-profit, publicly traded corporate entities to mete out punishment in the United States. What are some of the implications for the expansion of the prison industrial complex? How have policies related to correctional goals and objectives been shaped over the past 10 years? What are the driving forces for contemporary discussions of corrections in America? Finally, identify the barriers to prisoner reentry and provide some suggestions to the recidivism dilemma.