PRIVATE PRISONS IN THE UNITED STATES - Private for-profit prisons incarcerated 90,873

Maryland 127 0 0% -100% Massachusetts 0 0 0% * Michigan 449 0 0% -100% Harmful crime policies of the 1980s and beyond fueled Minnesota 0 0 0% * a rapid expansion in the nation’s prison population. [...] The Mississippi 3,230 2,252 12% -30% Missouri 0 0 0% * resulting burden on the public sector led to the modern Montana 986 2,319 49% 135% emergence of for-profit prisons in many states and the Nebraska 0 0 0% * federal system. [...] Of the 1.2 million people in federal and Nevada 508 0 0% -100% state prisons, 8%, or 90,873 people, were in private pris- New Hampshire 0 0 0% * ons as of year end 2022.1 New Jersey 2,498 834 7% -67% New Mexico 2,155 1,522 31% -29% New York 0 0 0% * States show significant variation in the use of private North Carolina 330 29 0% -91% prisons. [...] In these states, between 20% and 39% of Washington 0 0 0% * West Virginia 0 0 0% * the prison population resides in a for-profit prison (See Wisconsin** 4,337 0 0% -100% Table 1). [...] As of December 31, in the total number of people imprisoned over 20 years 2001, DC residents convicted of a felony are the responsibility of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.