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The "jail industry" in India refers to the system of prisons and correctional institutions run by the Indian government. This system is responsible for the detention ...
Correctional populations in the U.S., 1980–2013 US timeline graphs of number of people incarcerated in jails and prisons [1]. The prison-industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, [2] used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (such as prisons, jails, detention facilities, and ...
The Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) is a federal program that was initiated along with the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Prison-Industries Act in 1979. [68] Before these programs, prison labor for the private sector had been outlawed for decades to avoid competition. [ 68 ]
One report [14] detailed an FPI operation at a California prison in which inmates de-manufactured computer cathode-type monitors. Industry standard practice for this mandates a mechanical crushing machine to minimize danger from flying glass, with an isolated air system to avoid releasing lead, barium, and phosphor compounds to the workplace atmosphere.
The private prison industry has successfully lobbied for changes that increase the profit of their employers. They have opposed measures that would bring reduced sentencing or shorter prison terms. [231] [232] The private prison industry has been accused of being at least partly responsible for America's high rates of incarceration. [233]
In the United States, prison telecom is a $1.2 billion industry, mostly controlled by two private equity-backed companies [2] [3]: 23 —Global Tel Link (GTL) with a 50% market share as of 2015. [2] [4] and Securus Technologies, with 20%.
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, generally as rehabilitation and punishment for various crimes.
"the state prison, the Providence county jail, the state workhouse and the house of correction, the state almshouse, the state hospital for the insane, the Sockanosset school for boys, and the Oaklawn school for girls, the last two being departments of the state reform school." [86] There are prison farms in other countries.