Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration

The unprecedented prison capacity rate of this country deprives individuals of freedom, deprives families, exhausts the resources of governments, local communities, and taxpayers, but the private prison industry has been successful. Because of the massive imprisonment of public goods, private prison companies receive more and more government funds, and private prison management of major companies is undergoing a huge compensation program. Private prison firms basically recognize that their business model relies on locking more and more people. The US economy must not confine people to the cage in order to make a profit.

According to the Bureau of Justice and Statistics, in 2015, commercial enterprises were responsible for about 7% of state prisoners and 18% of federal prisoners (current latest figures). The US Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency reported in 2016 that about three quarters of federal immigration detainees are being detained in private prisons. The number of private prisons in Texas, Louisiana, and some other provincial prisons is unknown. Supporters of private prison boast that the government can save money through privatization, but the evidence is at best mixed - in fact, private prisons may cost more than government prisons. These private prisons are also associated with many violent and harsh conditions.

In addition to the private prison company, if meaningful efforts should be made to release large imprisonment, the problem of other prison intelligence agents must be solved. This includes frauding prisoners by charging excess phone charges, gun manufacturers, private military health care providers (usually missing) that provide care for prisoners, his family's telephone company . If we overthrow the massive prison organization, we also need to consider bankers, lawyers and politicians who benefit from the construction of new prisons in white rural areas.

My problem with the prison are similar, but they are not exactly the same. Companies establishing and operating private prisons bring economic benefits to the continuous growth of mass prisons. That is why the two major players in this game, the American Correctional Corporation and the GEO Group, have invested heavily in lobbying the criminal justice policy, making a significant contribution to the expansion of prison-dependent political campaigns It is. For example, between 1999 and 2010, a judgment project found that CCA lobbies at the federal level and spent $ 1.4 million per year averaging 70 lobbyists annually at the state level. In California state law requires the lobbyists to disclose their contributions in detail, CCA will use that fund to support other adults and juvenile prisons and detention centers, complete the private prison I am against the bill which prohibits it.