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>Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison: Less than 5% of prisoners in the US are in privately run prisons.
by mason240 11y ago
>Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison:
Less than 5% of prisoners in the US are in privately run prisons.
- AlexWest 11y ago"Broken down to prison type, 19.1% of the federal prison population in the United States is housed in private prisons and 6.8% of the U.S. state prison population is housed in private prisons." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_St...
- 001sky 11y agoCurrently 1/3 of the US incarcerated population is neither in State or Federal custody. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Adult_incarceration_statistics_for_the_USA._Timeline.gif/350px-Adult_incarceration_statistics_for_the_USA._Timeline.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Ad...
- clamprecht 11y agosource?
- leereeves 11y agoAccording to page 10 of http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus12.pdf http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus12.pdf 128k out of 2.228m inmates were in private prisons in 2012.
- gertef 11y agoEven publicly run prisons have contractors and unions.