Abolish for-profit prisons. These prisons do not save the American taxpayer money, and do not protect American citizens or criminal from themselves or each other. Incarceration cannot be an industry; it derives profits too easily from human abuse.
Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that for-profit prisons do not provide cost savings. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=843
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/10/us/mississippi-juvenile-justice/index....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/May/Nation-of-Criminals-Selling-Priso...