Jordan Ryan is arguing the benefits of private prisons and showing his audience that private prisons are not what the Justice Department claims them to be, which is “immoral and not cost effective.” Out of the nearly 2.2 million prisoners in the United States, 8% of those adults are contained in a privately owned facility. This statistic represents how important this issue is; roughly 176,000 people will be affected if private prisons are eliminated. Ryan knows that getting rid of these facilities is a bad idea and he wants to try and convince people that private prisons are beneficial to our criminal justice system. Ryan’s research allowed him to discover that the Justice Department, the very same people trying to shut down these facilities, reported that “private prisons are better at finding, seizing and recording contraband than their public counterparts." This proves that private prisons, contrary to many people’s knowledge, are safer than pubic prisons. Inmates are less likely to use drugs or be sexually assaulted within a private prisons. Even the Justice Department themselves can't dispute this fact, considering they are the ones that reported it. He states that those who oppose the privatization of prisons are arguing from a moral perspective: the fact that “no one should profit from the incarceration of another person.” This in impossible to avoid though. A prison cannot exist without profiting. Even public prisons use private contractors from time to time, after all, how else can they provide food, electricity, or even general maintenance for the facility without making a profit. Ryan makes his point by stating that private prison are not that much different that non-profit, public prisons. Ryan knows that private prisons could act as a solution and a tool in the reforming the criminal justice system. All he needs to do is convince everyone else to not hate these prisons, but to embrace them because they are the key.