> As a result, more and more private prisons are being built: the incarceration archipelago is adding islands even faster than the South China Sea. Adrian Zenz

> As a result, more and more private prisons are being built: the incarceration archipelago is adding islands even faster than the South China Sea. Adrian Zenz of the European School of Culture and Theology in Kortal, Germany, has looked at procurement contracts for 73 private prisons. He found their total cost to have been $108 million, almost all spent since April 2017. Records from Akto, a county near the border with Kyrgyzstan, say it spent 9.6% of its budget on law enforcement (including private prisons) in 2017. In 2016 spending on law enforcement in the province was five times what it had been in 2007. By the end of 2017 it was ten times that: $1.24 billion. Change a few keywords and it sounds more like the current situation in the USA. > CCA revenue hit a whopping $1.79 billion in 2015, up from the year before, while GEO revenue hit an even higher $1.84 billion, likewise an improvement over their previous year.[0] [0]http://allthatsinteresting.com/private-prisons-us-stats http://allthatsinteresting.com/private-prisons-us-stats