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The private prison industry has long fueled its growth on the proposition that it is a boon to taxpayers, delivering better outcomes at lower costs than state facilities. But significant evidence undermines that argument: the tendency of young people to return to crime once they get out, for example, and long-term contracts that can leave ...
A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available, whether occupied or not.
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CoreCivic, Inc. formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis.
A 2020 New York University Law Review article argued that the PLRA and the Supreme Court's deliberate-indifference standard had effectively shielded private medical contractors from large ...
Sep. 9—Oklahoma's reliance on private, for-profit prisons appears to be coming to an end — and that's a good thing. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is close to ending its relationship ...
California moved to end the use of private, for-profit lockups in America's largest state prison system as well as in federal immigration detention centers in the state under a measure signed into ...
The Texas ACLU had long alleged that private prison contractors running institutions such as Willacy cut corners in order to boost shareholder profits. That invariably led to medical under-staffing and extreme cost cutting, putting both prisoners and staff at risk. In 2014, the group documented complaints inside Willacy that caused it to be ...