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Only ~8% of prisoners are incarcerated in private facilities. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-in-the-united-states/ https://www.

• formerkrogemp 4y ago
  "Companies own or manage 75% of U.S. detention facilities. Two of the biggest companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, are publicly traded. In the correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-group-and-corecivic-are-struggling-under-trump.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-grou... Well, it seems I need to brush up on some reading then.