Texas Prison Bid'ness
Folks have been suspecting for a long time now that ALEC's influence has a correlation to expanding prison privatization. Part of the organization's mission is to:
advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America's state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public.
The wiki makes model legislation available and provides a forum for it's audience to review and post comments. Legislation includes this model bill relating (PDF) to authorizing state prison agencies to contract out incarceration and other related services. Take a look and join the discussion. This is an exciting development in the effort to make the lawmaking process more transparent as it relates to prison privatization.