Private prisons
Subject in Business
Private prisons has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Andrew JareckiAmerican filmmaker and documentarian, director of The Jinx and co-director of The Alabama Solution
Jarecki argues Alabama's state-run prisons function like private prisons because of their vendor contracts.
“they kind of function like private prisons in a way because they're able to make deals with securists about their prison phone system”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2475 - Andrew Jarecki (Mar 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:00:35
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan argues that allowing private prisons created incentives to keep laws on the books so facilities stay full.
“they're trying to be number one in the human battery business. And that's what's fucking insane about allowing that in this country”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2475 - Andrew Jarecki (Mar 27, 2026) · Listen from 58:25
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
#2475 - Andrew JareckiThe Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 27, 2026 · 2 h 47 min
Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki tells Joe Rogan how he documented deaths, drugs and forced labor inside Alabama's prisons, and revisits his Robert Durst film The Jinx.