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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.
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency that manages U.S. federal prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons classifies prisons into seven categories: United States penitentiaries; Federal correctional institutions; Private correctional institutions; Federal prison camps; Administrative facilities; Federal correctional complexes [1]
Pages in category "Private prisons in the United States" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
All federal inmates housed in private prisons have been moved to Bureau of Prisons facilities and the agency has ended all contracts with private facilities, officials said. Last year, in one of ...
America's largest state prison system is moving to quit the practice of farming out inmates to lockups run under contract by private companies, following a nationwide decline in the for-profit ...
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 ...
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama
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 ...