There are many citizen concerns, including the premise that private prison companies are pressuring governments to increase sentences and fines to fill their facilities. Geoffrey Segal writes: “It is unlikely that private prison companies can influence policy in favor of greater incarceration when such policies are obviously already very popular among the general population” in his online article also published in The Reason in November 2002, The Mr. Segal is the director of privatization and government reform at the Reason Foundation. with a bachelor's degree in political science from Arizona State University and a master's degree in public policy from Pepperdine University. The prison system as an industry, according to Randy Gragg private prisons are starting to flourish again, Mr. Gragg is the editor in chief of the Portland monthly, he wrote the article “A high-security, low-risk investment: Private investments Prisons Make Crime Pay” for Harper's magazine in August 1996. Gragg is a graduate of Harvard University's design faculty and is a national arts journalism fellow at Columbia University. THE