Private Prison Stocks, Trump's Victory, Little Marco, and the Bought Congress

Double-digit surges in private prison stocks might be the most ostensibly ominous onset to a presidency in recent history, but there’s more to it than Trump's offensive immigration rhetoric and baseless claim that private prisons seem to “work better.” Trump’s delusions are fringe benefits for an industry that showered our new Republican Congress with enough campaign cash to nullify an unfriendly Democratic administration. Still, while private prison money is everywhere, a KKK-endorsed president sets the national tone in a country that never fully abolished slavery.