ANN ALTHOUSE: Hillary Clinton’s unchallenged, illogical statement about private prisons. “Government prosecutes criminals and obtains convictions and prison sentences. If government uses privately run prisons, it must pay these private businesses to house its prisoners. The entity filling the prison therefore has an economic incentive against putting more people in prison. The private business — the one with the ‘profit motivation’ — has no power to create more prisoners. I can see opposing private prisons for other reasons, but Hillary’s justification made no sense to me other than a random expression of disgust for business.”