country has prisons that are way over capacity so what groups like the geo group of florida corrections corps of america what they're offered to do is they build these prisons really cheaply to how's overflow inmates and for the most part they're low level offenders or nonviolent offenders which means that they're drug users and c.c.a. said in their annual report in two thousand and ten to shareholders they said there are some things that are beyond our control such as what states how states decide to him or the drug war you know if they were to decriminalize or legalize or decide that they want later punishments that's going to hurt our bottom line and so on the one hand in the report they say these things are sort of beyond our control but on the other hand they have spent a significant amount of money lobbying for harsh laws for three strikes laws for mandatory minimums and. you know they're doing it because there's an incentive to me to lobby for those kinds of laws now president obama recently returned from the summit of the me of the americas in colombia and the president of colombia and other sou