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Bookmark or Share- Prisons for Profit: An Industry of ExploitationPrisons—unlike shorter-term jails—hold inmates for lengthy sentences received for serious offenses. While many prisons are public and thus government-operated, privatized incarceration can be a profit-generating machine: the more inmates, the more money a for-profit prison can raise.
- The United States has the world’s largest private prison population ...Federal prisons incarcerated the largest number of people in private prisons, 34,159, marking a 120 percent increase since 2000. The largest private prison corporations, Core Civic and GEO Group, collectively manage over half of the private prison contracts in the United States with combined revenues of $3.5 billion as of 2015.
- Private prison - WikipediaA private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.
- Private Prisons in the United States – The Sentencing ProjectPrivate for-profit prisons incarcerated 90,873 American residents in 2022, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 5%.
- The Business Model of Private Prisons - InvestopediaPrivate prisons are run by private companies on behalf of the government rather than by the government itself. Critics have argued that criminal justice should be a wholly public affair and...
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