I loved reading the historical aspects of this issue.  The lack of transparency for what is essentially paid for by tax payers is crazy.  But in the current america we live in this is a genius money laundering scheme of taking public tax payer money and converting it into private money through the privatization of prisons.  And how do you increase revenue?  Longer sentences, increased criminalization, everything sessions and current administration seeks to do to make more prisoners and have them stay longer.  And this not only at the expense of the tax payer but the society that has mothers and fathers taken from children and breaking families.  But for sessions and others this is monetary profit as children with out parents are more prone to poverty, crime and are in the system and institutionalized ar an early age, thus making more prisoners for revenue.  But this is what America wanted and voted for, so while transparency and truth might be helpful, it will be dismissed as fake news