Private prisons are prisons owned and operated by a third party that is contracted by a government organization. Often the contracts between the two include wording that requires a certain percentage of the facility to be filled at all times (quotas), or else the privately owned prison can sue the government for losses. Quotas must be filled and people must be arrested and locked away in order to complete the task.
What that means is that cops will go out of their way to find someone committing a crime. Not all crimes