Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration - U.S. Growth in Private Prisons

The resulting burden on the public sector – eliminated their use of private prisons due to concerns led to the modern emergence of for-profit private prisons about safety and cost cutting.4 In 2016, Louisiana in many states and at the federal level. [...] of all people in immigration detention- were confined in privately-run facilities on a daily basis during fiscal The federal government is the single largest user of year 2017.2 private prisons in the United States but has reduced its population in private prisons in recent years. [...] The private prison population reached a peak of 137,220 in 2012; it then declined to 126,272 in 2015, New Mexico had the highest proportion of its population before rising again in 2016 to 128,063.6 held privately in both 2000 and 2016, with respective rates of 40 and 43 percent, followed closely by Montana At the state level 27 states utilized private prison beds, with a rate of 39 percent in 201. [...] The state is facing a major budget shortfall and many In 2016, following the Department of Justice’s in the legislature are urging the governor to accept announcement that it would phase out private prisons, the offer. [...] Number of People Incarcerated in Private Senate Bill 251 to allow contracts with private prison Prisons in North Carolina vendors to manage and construct private prison 400 facilities.70 As the prison population continued to expand during the 1990s in response to the passage of tougher penalties, the overcrowding problem persisted and 300 private prison growth increased.