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The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2012 by Alex Friedmann published in Prison Legal News January, 2012, page 20
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Commentary/Reviews, Lobbying, Overcrowding, Staffing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism. Location: United States of America.

At the beginning of the 1980s there were no privately-operated adult correctional facilities in the United States. As of 2009, more than 129,300 state and federal prisoners were housed in for-profit lock-ups. Prison privatization has become an acceptable practice and the private prison industry is now a multi-billion dollar business. ...

 

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