Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). The deal allegedly said that CCA would buy their prisons with one requirement: That there be a 90% guaranteed occupancy rate. This means that states were going to be expected to do whatever is necessary to ensure that their prisons remain full.
Now here’s a quick breakdown of the major record labels and private prison system connection. (via Hip Hop And Politics):

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Ninety percent of what Americans read, watch and listen to is controlled by only six media companies.

Time Warner, as owner of Warner Bros Records (among many other record labels), can not only sign an artist, as the owner of Entertainment Weekly, can see to it that they get next week’s cover. Also the owner of New Line Cinemas, HBO and TNT, they can have their artist cast in a leading role in a film that, when pulled from theaters, will be put into rotation first on premium, then on basic, cable. Without any consideration to the music whatsoever, the artist will already be a star, though such monopolies also extend into radio stations and networks that air music videos. Both BET and MTV belong to Viacom. While Hot 97, NYC’s top hip hop station, is owned by Emmis Communications, online streaming is controlled by Clear Channel, who also owns rival station Power 105.

PRISON-MEDIA FACTS: According to public analysis from Bloomberg, the largest holder in Corrections Corporation of America is Vanguard Group Incorporated. Vanguard also holds considerable stake in the media giants determining this country’s culture [and] is the third largest
holder in both Viacom and Time Warner. Vanguard is also the third largest holder in the GEO Group, whose correctional, detention and community reentry services boast 101 facilities and approximately 73,000 beds. Second nationally only to Corrections Corporation of America.

The number-one holder of both Viacom and Time Warner is a company called Blackrock. Blackrock is the second largest holder in Corrections Corporation of America, second only to Vanguard, and the sixth largest holder in the GEO Group.

There are many other startling overlaps in private-prison/mass-media ownership, but two underlying facts become clear very quickly: The people who own the media are the same people who own private prisons, the EXACT same people, and using one to promote the other is (or “would be,” depending on your analysis) very lucrative.

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Do you see the connection?!! In the words of Marvin Gaye, WHAT’S GOING ON? Major record labels have adapted a fast food mentality, meaning they have created a system,