Private Prisons in the United States

Private prison populations Jurisdiction 2000 2019 % private 2019 % change 2000-2019 Alabama 0 122 0.4 * Private Prisons in Alaska 1,383 221 4.9 -84%Arizona 1,430 8,291 19.5 480% Arkansas 1,540 0 0 -100% the United States California 4,547 1,134 0.9 -75%Colorado 2,099 3,858 19.5 84% Connecticut 0 0 0 0 Delaware 0 0 0 0% Private prisons in the United States incarcerated District of Columbia 2,342 ~ ~. [...] Indiana 991 4,093 15.1 313% However, the private prison population has declined Iowa 0 0 0 0% 16% since reaching its peak in 2012 with 137,220 Kansas 0 0 0 0% Kentucky 1,268 895 3.9 -29% people. [...] Indeed, Montana held Minnesota 0 0 0 0% 47% of its prison population in private facilities, Mississippi 3,230 3,139 16.2 -3% while 20 states did not employ any for-profit Missouri 0 0 0 0% prisons. [...] Data compiled by the Bureau of Justice Montana 986 2,222 47.0 125% Statistics (BJS) and interviews with corrections Nebraska 0 0 0 0% officials find that in 2019, 30 states and the federal Nevada 508 100 0.8 -80% government incarcerated people in private facilities New Hampshire 0 0 0 0% run by corporations including GEO Group, Core Civic New Jersey 2,498 2,297 12.3 -8% New Mexico 2,155 2,445 36.4. [...] Texas, the first state to adopt private Pennsylvania 0 511 1.1 * prisons in 1985, incarcerated the largest number of Rhode Island 0 0 † 0 0% people under state jurisdiction, 12,516.