Because it encourage the use of profit oriented private prisons.
Explanation:
New Mexico became dependent on prison Labour because the country had no quality jobs and the education standard was poor. As a result of this many citizens had to take on several illegal jobs just to make a living. This led to the apprehension and detention of most of this citizens over the years.
Over the years New Mexico's economic situation became worse and this only increased the number of incarcerated people within the country. Due to this, private prison coperations such as Corecivics, GEO groups, MTC came into the country and there was an introduction of private prisons which were then used as a means of generating profit from using inmates for business purposes.
This was before the American Revolution but when Britain was being annoying (1775 or 1776) and The Committee of Correspondence was a means of communication between colonies and became increasingly important to share information, getting closer to the Revolution.