This reading demonstrates the different numbers of private prison and how it affects us as a nation. The incarceration rate in private prisons is increasing. It has increased 47% in the last nineteen years. The United States also has the world’s largest private prison population. This honestly doesn’t surprise me because we have the largest prison population, so why wouldn’t we have the largest private prison population? Another interesting statistic I found is that incarceration rate for private prisons is higher than the total prison incarceration rate. I would think that the total incarceration rate would be higher than the incarceration rate in private prisons. This does make sense though, because the more prisoners’ private prisons have the more money they will make and that is what they are all about. One thing I wasn’t surprised by is that private prisons trim the worker’s salary and don’t give them as many benefits as public prisons. This makes sense for the sole reason of private prisons being all about making their money. I think it isn’t fair that no one knows cost savings claims with private prisons because they are “private.” People should be able to know this kind of information. -lilbaby001
In this reading it starts off with showing some numbers and percentages on how much the private prison populations have gone up from 2000 to 2016 and for the most part none of the numbers were very surprising. The only number that has seemed to grow the absolute most is the amount of private immigrants being held in the private institutions with an increase of 442 percent which is a large number due to the increase in immigration over the past few years. The fact that are 2 main companies that own and operate the majority of private prisons and collectively have a revenue of 3.5 billion dollars is absolutely insane. They are ran by workers who are non union and offer lower pay rates and few benefits which if you ask me is very selfish considering they are locked inside these buildings with people who have the potential to become very dangerous at any moment, a potentially life threatening job with low pay and few benefits does not appeal to me at all. Another issue with private prisons is that the information about their "cost saving claims" are not able to be found and the fact that they can not seem to disclose that information does seem a bit shady to me. I have no problem with what the companies are doing but information should be disclosed the public and they also should pay their workers better and allow for better benefits for watching the inmates. -Blues001
The report says that the U.S. has the world's largest private prison population, with 128,063 people incarcerated there in 2016. The population had increased from 2000 to 2016 by 47%. And with the increase of prisoners inside private prisons the corporations that run them are now getting paid off of having them locked away inside their facilities. There were those who claimed that private prisons were more cost efficient at providing services than public prisons but there was evidence that said otherwise. It is actually costing the states more to hire these private facilities than it would in a public institution. According to the article, the prisons lack proper job training. Without this the guards who work at these institutions may not be entirely ready for what they might encounter inside. The fact that these types of prisons exist mostly to make a profit seems a bit greedy in my opinion. One big thing that should change about private prisons is that they should be willing to disclose information regarding their practices. Private prisons may confine people outside the state they live in. If a prisoner is ever to be released from prison they should be able to head back home without having to take a long drive to get there, because not every state has private prisons. -Ram001
Populations in prisons are steadily rising and it’s time that we start looking for ways to fix that. From 2000 to 2016 there has been a 9% increase in total prison populations and a 47% increase in private prison populations. In private immigrant detention there has been a 442% increase, which is the most alarming statistic to me. Private prisons bring about a lot of challenges, including the fact that they’re very costly. Also, there are a lot of quality and safety concerns that arise. 60-70% of annual operating budget is put toward labor, so there has to be some quality concerns for the prisoners. There are some ways to fix these problems in our prisons systems. One of these being that we need to stop incarcerating people far away from home. When this is done it makes it a lot harder to fulfill the prisoners needs and to address the ongoing legal problems and situations that they’re going through. We also need to end the federal bed quota for immigrant detention. This quota says that there must be no less than 34,000 beds at any given time. This needs to end because it just simply isn’t fair and it keeps the prison population higher than it should. -Celtics001
The reading provides detailed statistics contrasting the populations of both government and private prison facilities. Private prisons have have seen an increase in incarcerations between 2000 and 2016 despite the variation in usage approval across states. The argument behind this increase, according to the report, is the claim of cost efficiency that is not supported enough by research, since most of which is found contradictory. It mentions that private facilities exist to make money, and to do so, the number of inmates is always a concern. More inmates mean more money. Personally, I believe this is a slight form of corruption. I feel like this may make the quality of life of the prisoners, or the delivery of justice, come second in some instances. It also states, that in order to conserve costs, the maintaining of a low amount of staff is common. The salary of private prison staff is lower than that of government facilities at $23,850 on average, which does not provide much incentive for specialized training, thus posing a safety concern for both the staff and inmates. The reading does provide solutions to the situation that I agree with. Ceasing to deal with for profit prison corporations, decreasing their discrepancy, ending long distance imprisonment, and bed quotas. The Freedom of Information Act does not apply to private prisons, which I found surprising, they frequently take prisoners from out of state, making family communication an unnecessary issue for prisoners, and Homeland Security requires a minimum of 34,000 beds to be maintained for immigrant detention; an incentive for the reliance of private prisons just to keep populations up. This all seems immoral to me. All of this trouble for a cheap buck when money shouldn't be the primary concern. The upholding of justice and prison quality should come before monetary gain. -StarWars001
The report tells of rising US prison populations, already the highest in the world, with a 47% increase in prison population between 2000 and 2016. A number of factors came together to make this happen, the war on drugs and mandatory minimum sentences to name a few. But one thing that was spawned from this boom and I feel forcing it to continue, is privatized for profit prisons. These institutions were established to help the state with cutting costs and controlling population, but have become focused on keeping people incarcerated and cutting their operating costs to turn higher profits. The report states that the cost savings of private prisons is unfounded, as well as most private prisons employing non unionized and lower skill workers. This leads to obvious safety concerns not only for the staff but inmates as well. It is my opinion that our current mass incarceration issue won't be solved until we do away with private prisons and stop people from profiting while taking the freedom of others. -Stark001
The private population has boomed since the year 2000. The population of private prisons increased 47 percent from 2000 to 2016. The population though of public prisons only rose 9 percent in the same time frame. This seems crazy to me because the overall crime rate is going down, but it looks as though the incarceration rate is going up, especially in privately run prisons. Since the year 2002, the number of people being held in private immigration facilities skyrocketed 442 percent to the year 2016. This does not surprise me though because immigration has gotten increasingly worse over time. One thing that the private prisons say they do is to do it more cost-effective than publicly run prisons. The problem with these claims is that they are hard to support with evidence because the evidence does not agree. Many studies have been done, reviewed, and replicated by different people and the conclusion has come back that private prisons are not guaranteed to be more cost-effective. People that work in private prisons get paid significantly less than people in the public sector. They are not incentivized to get better training, so I feel as though that might lead to the fact that assaults in private prisons double the amount in public run facilities. Different laws that have been put into effect has helped private prisons because that puts more inmates into their prisons, so they make more money. -Legion001
In this reading it states that the total prison population only went up 9% between 2000-2016 which is weird because we are always told that crime is going down yet incarceration rates are steady going up? Knowing that the United States has the world's largest prison population is crazy. Of the 1.5 million people in state and federal prisons in 2016, 8.5%, or 128,063 were incarcerated in private prisons. From 2000-2016 the number of people housed in private prisons increased five times faster than the total prison population. Six states have more than doubled the number of individuals in private prisons since 2000. Which is super crazy to think about. Another thing that blew my mind was knowing that the proportion of people detained in private immigration facilities increased by 442%.. 442% which is outrageous. The quality and concerns about private prisons are no joke. Reading that “Private prison companies face a challenge in reducing costs and offering services necessary to maintaining safety in prisons while also generating a profit for shareholders. The primary approach to controlling spending is by maintaining lower levels of staff benefits and salary than publicly-run facilities. Labor costs normally account for 60 to 70 percent of annual operating budgets. Such savings, though, risk compromising safety and security within prisons.” is sad because safety and security are two very important things. -freckles001
In the United States, locking people up and throwing away the key is one of the primary forms of punishment. It is crazy looking at some of these statistics. It makes me wonder how many of the people who are locked up truly deserve to be incarcerated. One of the first statistics that blew my mind was how large the population increased within private prisons over 16 years. A 47% increase in population in private is an insane amount. All prisons in general increased a total of 9%. Another statistic that I found interesting about private prisons was that around 4,800 immigrants were being held in them. What is even more interesting is how large of an increase in population happened over fifteen years. From the year 2002 to the year 2017, the population of immigrants increased thousands. One thing that I felt was not understandable was the fact that within private prisons there are fewer staff members. In my opinion, I feel that this does not make sense to have a very few amount of staff workers, because what if something were to happen such as a riot throughout the prison? There wouldn’t be enough staff to stop the outbreak. This could cause a huge issue. -Anchorman001
This article talks about how private prisons have exploded in the past decade. They have done such because of the overbearing number of prisoners. The problem with private prisons is that they are prisons for profit. They do not pay employees well and offer them few benefits compared to working for the public correctional system. I believe that prisons should be focused on more of rehabilitation approach to most criminals. In my opinion private prisons would not want to focus on that because they are paid based on how many prisoners they house. I found it interesting that it mentioned how if the trend continues that most private prisons will try to focus on immigration issues. I see that only having two companies that own a majority of the privatized prisons industry troublesome. If we are ever to make private prisons work we need to create some sort of incentive to help reform prisoners instead of holding them for as long as possible. The best solution would be to not convict so many people on non violent charges to keep them out of prison in the first place. Our prisons are overcrowded as is and I do not believe that a privatized industry is the cheap or correct answer. Jackrabbit001
Personally, things like numbers and statistics are what validate my thoughts and or beliefs in what I see as true. Private prisons in America have become more and more abundant as the years go by. In the mere sixteen years between 2000 and 2016 five times more people were being placed in private prisons than the total prison population. Similarly, private facilities being used to hold immigrant detainees increased by over 400 percent in a similar span of fifteen or so years. In fact, in 2009 there were actual quotas set by congress stating that Homeland Security must maintain 33,400 immigration detention spots for people to occupy, even if there were not enough people to fill them at the time. As the years went on, these quotas only got higher and victimized even more immigrants. The treatment of immigrants in America has only gotten worse with time. Some are only paid one dollar per hour for their work, while others are being brutalized and incarcerated. The arrests and detentions of immigrants has gone up by 40 percent since mid 2017, according to ICE. These quotas and outrageous budgets given to congress to "deal with," immigrants needs to come to an end. In the end, we all migrated here, this land belongs to none of us. Yes, laws are necessary, ad yes laws should be upheld. But, laws should also be constitutional, and not a tool used to dehumanize people further. psych001
According to this report, the number of state prisoners in private prisons increased 47% in just 16 years, while the overall state prison population only grew 9%. These numbers are quite interesting to me because they show just how fast the use of private prisons is. These facilities are on the rise and while they are necessary, it is slightly alarming that they are becoming so standard in today's society. Arizona had the all-time high for those incarcerated in privatized prisons with a growth rate of 479% from 2000 to 2016. That statistic is bewildering in and of itself. Almost a 500% increase is unacceptable in my opinion because of how inhumanely those who are incarcerated get treated in these facilities. This report also addresses the growth rate on a federal level. The number of prisoners held in private prisons has gone up 120% since 2000. I think there is a certain degree of necessity to utilizing these places, but we should not be using them as much as we are because so many people are being locked up for minor crimes so these prisons can make money which is, I think, the main cause of the increasing use of privatized prisons. -Reid001
As War on Drugs all tries in with the mass incarceration in the US. There is a high overcrowded population in jail and prisons. Where some don't have space for more inmates. The government pays private prisons to house them and they profit from each cell that is taken. The mass incarceration in the US, is mostly petty non violent crimes by reoffenders. And even though most people don't deserve to be incarcerated they are put there because of the lack of rehabilitation that is provide for them when taken out of jail. It becomes something that doesn't help society, just creates stereotypes for minorities that come from low income families that don't have enough money to pay for petty fines. Where private prisons have been making money off these people to get locked up and don’t help them in any way once they are out. So, that eventually makes them reoffend and there a trail back to prison for more money in their pockets. Especially, immigrants that come from other countries and don’t have anything. They are place in detention centers that these private places rather keep them there to make more profit from the government. taco001
Private prisons in America has always been somewhat of an grey area to the public. In this article however we have found out that a large percentage of the jailed public, is in fact going to these privately owned prisons, dramatic shifts of population in the last decade. Now according to the article, the number of federal prisoners in private prisons grew 120 percent from 15,524 in 2000 to 34,159 in 2016. While only 31% of state prisoners grew in that same time period. A problem we see however is what we can't see in private prisons. Reports in this article like incarcerated immigrants being forced to work for $1 a day are what puts these Private Prisons in the spotlight. Of course the article goes on with the Attorney General denouncing these actions, but what does the government really know about what happens in these prisons? A study listed that the federal prisons are beating private prisons when it comes to safety and rule statistics. Federal prisons are said to have a shady background with instances like drug trade, prison lock-downs, and inmate discipline. Personally I think private prisons is sketchy and should only be used for extreme offenders, these prisons are run differently and have different ways of dealing with things then federal prisons so I feel like there will always be some risk, as the prisons have their own loopholes. - Lobster001
This reading demonstrates the different numbers of private prison and how it affects us as a nation. The incarceration rate in private prisons is increasing. It has increased 47% in the last nineteen years. The United States also has the world’s largest private prison population. This honestly doesn’t surprise me because we have the largest prison population, so why wouldn’t we have the largest private prison population? Another interesting statistic I found is that incarceration rate for private prisons is higher than the total prison incarceration rate. I would think that the total incarceration rate would be higher than the incarceration rate in private prisons. This does make sense though, because the more prisoners’ private prisons have the more money they will make and that is what they are all about. One thing I wasn’t surprised by is that private prisons trim the worker’s salary and don’t give them as many benefits as public prisons. This makes sense for the sole reason of private prisons being all about making their money. I think it isn’t fair that no one knows cost savings claims with private prisons because they are “private.” People should be able to know this kind of information. -lilbaby001
ReplyDeleteIn this reading it starts off with showing some numbers and percentages on how much the private prison populations have gone up from 2000 to 2016 and for the most part none of the numbers were very surprising. The only number that has seemed to grow the absolute most is the amount of private immigrants being held in the private institutions with an increase of 442 percent which is a large number due to the increase in immigration over the past few years. The fact that are 2 main companies that own and operate the majority of private prisons and collectively have a revenue of 3.5 billion dollars is absolutely insane. They are ran by workers who are non union and offer lower pay rates and few benefits which if you ask me is very selfish considering they are locked inside these buildings with people who have the potential to become very dangerous at any moment, a potentially life threatening job with low pay and few benefits does not appeal to me at all. Another issue with private prisons is that the information about their "cost saving claims" are not able to be found and the fact that they can not seem to disclose that information does seem a bit shady to me. I have no problem with what the companies are doing but information should be disclosed the public and they also should pay their workers better and allow for better benefits for watching the inmates.
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The report says that the U.S. has the world's largest private prison population, with 128,063 people incarcerated there in 2016. The population had increased from 2000 to 2016 by 47%. And with the increase of prisoners inside private prisons the corporations that run them are now getting paid off of having them locked away inside their facilities. There were those who claimed that private prisons were more cost efficient at providing services than public prisons but there was evidence that said otherwise. It is actually costing the states more to hire these private facilities than it would in a public institution. According to the article, the prisons lack proper job training. Without this the guards who work at these institutions may not be entirely ready for what they might encounter inside. The fact that these types of prisons exist mostly to make a profit seems a bit greedy in my opinion. One big thing that should change about private prisons is that they should be willing to disclose information regarding their practices. Private prisons may confine people outside the state they live in. If a prisoner is ever to be released from prison they should be able to head back home without having to take a long drive to get there, because not every state has private prisons.
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Populations in prisons are steadily rising and it’s time that we start looking for ways to fix that. From 2000 to 2016 there has been a 9% increase in total prison populations and a 47% increase in private prison populations. In private immigrant detention there has been a 442% increase, which is the most alarming statistic to me. Private prisons bring about a lot of challenges, including the fact that they’re very costly. Also, there are a lot of quality and safety concerns that arise. 60-70% of annual operating budget is put toward labor, so there has to be some quality concerns for the prisoners. There are some ways to fix these problems in our prisons systems. One of these being that we need to stop incarcerating people far away from home. When this is done it makes it a lot harder to fulfill the prisoners needs and to address the ongoing legal problems and situations that they’re going through. We also need to end the federal bed quota for immigrant detention. This quota says that there must be no less than 34,000 beds at any given time. This needs to end because it just simply isn’t fair and it keeps the prison population higher than it should. -Celtics001
ReplyDeleteThe reading provides detailed statistics contrasting the populations of both government and private prison facilities. Private prisons have have seen an increase in incarcerations between 2000 and 2016 despite the variation in usage approval across states. The argument behind this increase, according to the report, is the claim of cost efficiency that is not supported enough by research, since most of which is found contradictory. It mentions that private facilities exist to make money, and to do so, the number of inmates is always a concern. More inmates mean more money. Personally, I believe this is a slight form of corruption. I feel like this may make the quality of life of the prisoners, or the delivery of justice, come second in some instances. It also states, that in order to conserve costs, the maintaining of a low amount of staff is common. The salary of private prison staff is lower than that of government facilities at $23,850 on average, which does not provide much incentive for specialized training, thus posing a safety concern for both the staff and inmates. The reading does provide solutions to the situation that I agree with. Ceasing to deal with for profit prison corporations, decreasing their discrepancy, ending long distance imprisonment, and bed quotas. The Freedom of Information Act does not apply to private prisons, which I found surprising, they frequently take prisoners from out of state, making family communication an unnecessary issue for prisoners, and Homeland Security requires a minimum of 34,000 beds to be maintained for immigrant detention; an incentive for the reliance of private prisons just to keep populations up. This all seems immoral to me. All of this trouble for a cheap buck when money shouldn't be the primary concern. The upholding of justice and prison quality should come before monetary gain.
ReplyDelete-StarWars001
The report tells of rising US prison populations, already the highest in the world, with a 47% increase in prison population between 2000 and 2016. A number of factors came together to make this happen, the war on drugs and mandatory minimum sentences to name a few. But one thing that was spawned from this boom and I feel forcing it to continue, is privatized for profit prisons. These institutions were established to help the state with cutting costs and controlling population, but have become focused on keeping people incarcerated and cutting their operating costs to turn higher profits. The report states that the cost savings of private prisons is unfounded, as well as most private prisons employing non unionized and lower skill workers. This leads to obvious safety concerns not only for the staff but inmates as well. It is my opinion that our current mass incarceration issue won't be solved until we do away with private prisons and stop people from profiting while taking the freedom of others. -Stark001
ReplyDeleteThe private population has boomed since the year 2000. The population of private prisons increased 47 percent from 2000 to 2016. The population though of public prisons only rose 9 percent in the same time frame. This seems crazy to me because the overall crime rate is going down, but it looks as though the incarceration rate is going up, especially in privately run prisons. Since the year 2002, the number of people being held in private immigration facilities skyrocketed 442 percent to the year 2016. This does not surprise me though because immigration has gotten increasingly worse over time. One thing that the private prisons say they do is to do it more cost-effective than publicly run prisons. The problem with these claims is that they are hard to support with evidence because the evidence does not agree. Many studies have been done, reviewed, and replicated by different people and the conclusion has come back that private prisons are not guaranteed to be more cost-effective. People that work in private prisons get paid significantly less than people in the public sector. They are not incentivized to get better training, so I feel as though that might lead to the fact that assaults in private prisons double the amount in public run facilities. Different laws that have been put into effect has helped private prisons because that puts more inmates into their prisons, so they make more money. -Legion001
ReplyDeleteIn this reading it states that the total prison population only went up 9% between 2000-2016 which is weird because we are always told that crime is going down yet incarceration rates are steady going up? Knowing that the United States has the world's largest prison population is crazy. Of the 1.5 million people in state and federal prisons in 2016, 8.5%, or 128,063 were incarcerated in private prisons. From 2000-2016 the number of people housed in private prisons increased five times faster than the total prison population. Six states have more than doubled the number of individuals in private prisons since 2000. Which is super crazy to think about. Another thing that blew my mind was knowing that the proportion of people detained in private immigration facilities increased by 442%.. 442% which is outrageous. The quality and concerns about private prisons are no joke. Reading that “Private prison companies face a challenge in reducing costs and offering services necessary to maintaining safety in prisons while also generating a profit for shareholders. The primary approach to controlling spending is by maintaining lower levels of staff benefits and salary than publicly-run facilities. Labor costs normally account for 60 to 70 percent of annual operating budgets. Such savings, though, risk compromising safety and security within prisons.” is sad because safety and security are two very important things. -freckles001
ReplyDeleteIn the United States, locking people up and throwing away the key is one of the primary forms of punishment. It is crazy looking at some of these statistics. It makes me wonder how many of the people who are locked up truly deserve to be incarcerated. One of the first statistics that blew my mind was how large the population increased within private prisons over 16 years. A 47% increase in population in private is an insane amount. All prisons in general increased a total of 9%. Another statistic that I found interesting about private prisons was that around 4,800 immigrants were being held in them. What is even more interesting is how large of an increase in population happened over fifteen years. From the year 2002 to the year 2017, the population of immigrants increased thousands. One thing that I felt was not understandable was the fact that within private prisons there are fewer staff members. In my opinion, I feel that this does not make sense to have a very few amount of staff workers, because what if something were to happen such as a riot throughout the prison? There wouldn’t be enough staff to stop the outbreak. This could cause a huge issue. -Anchorman001
ReplyDeleteThis article talks about how private prisons have exploded in the past decade. They have done such because of the overbearing number of prisoners. The problem with private prisons is that they are prisons for profit. They do not pay employees well and offer them few benefits compared to working for the public correctional system. I believe that prisons should be focused on more of rehabilitation approach to most criminals. In my opinion private prisons would not want to focus on that because they are paid based on how many prisoners they house. I found it interesting that it mentioned how if the trend continues that most private prisons will try to focus on immigration issues. I see that only having two companies that own a majority of the privatized prisons industry troublesome. If we are ever to make private prisons work we need to create some sort of incentive to help reform prisoners instead of holding them for as long as possible. The best solution would be to not convict so many people on non violent charges to keep them out of prison in the first place. Our prisons are overcrowded as is and I do not believe that a privatized industry is the cheap or correct answer. Jackrabbit001
ReplyDeletePersonally, things like numbers and statistics are what validate my thoughts and or beliefs in what I see as true. Private prisons in America have become more and more abundant as the years go by. In the mere sixteen years between 2000 and 2016 five times more people were being placed in private prisons than the total prison population. Similarly, private facilities being used to hold immigrant detainees increased by over 400 percent in a similar span of fifteen or so years. In fact, in 2009 there were actual quotas set by congress stating that Homeland Security must maintain 33,400 immigration detention spots for people to occupy, even if there were not enough people to fill them at the time. As the years went on, these quotas only got higher and victimized even more immigrants. The treatment of immigrants in America has only gotten worse with time. Some are only paid one dollar per hour for their work, while others are being brutalized and incarcerated. The arrests and detentions of immigrants has gone up by 40 percent since mid 2017, according to ICE. These quotas and outrageous budgets given to congress to "deal with," immigrants needs to come to an end. In the end, we all migrated here, this land belongs to none of us. Yes, laws are necessary, ad yes laws should be upheld. But, laws should also be constitutional, and not a tool used to dehumanize people further.
ReplyDeletepsych001
According to this report, the number of state prisoners in private prisons increased 47% in just 16 years, while the overall state prison population only grew 9%. These numbers are quite interesting to me because they show just how fast the use of private prisons is. These facilities are on the rise and while they are necessary, it is slightly alarming that they are becoming so standard in today's society. Arizona had the all-time high for those incarcerated in privatized prisons with a growth rate of 479% from 2000 to 2016. That statistic is bewildering in and of itself. Almost a 500% increase is unacceptable in my opinion because of how inhumanely those who are incarcerated get treated in these facilities. This report also addresses the growth rate on a federal level. The number of prisoners held in private prisons has gone up 120% since 2000. I think there is a certain degree of necessity to utilizing these places, but we should not be using them as much as we are because so many people are being locked up for minor crimes so these prisons can make money which is, I think, the main cause of the increasing use of privatized prisons.
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As War on Drugs all tries in with the mass incarceration in the US. There is a high overcrowded population in jail and prisons. Where some don't have space for more inmates. The government pays private prisons to house them and they profit from each cell that is taken. The mass incarceration in the US, is mostly petty non violent crimes by reoffenders. And even though most people don't deserve to be incarcerated they are put there because of the lack of rehabilitation that is provide for them when taken out of jail. It becomes something that doesn't help society, just creates stereotypes for minorities that come from low income families that don't have enough money to pay for petty fines. Where private prisons have been making money off these people to get locked up and don’t help them in any way once they are out. So, that eventually makes them reoffend and there a trail back to prison for more money in their pockets. Especially, immigrants that come from other countries and don’t have anything. They are place in detention centers that these private places rather keep them there to make more profit from the government. taco001
ReplyDeletePrivate prisons in America has always been somewhat of an grey area to the public. In this article however we have found out that a large percentage of the jailed public, is in fact going to these privately owned prisons, dramatic shifts of population in the last decade. Now according to the article, the number of federal prisoners in private prisons grew 120 percent from 15,524 in 2000 to
ReplyDelete34,159 in 2016. While only 31% of state prisoners grew in that same time period. A problem we see however is what we can't see in private prisons. Reports in this article like incarcerated immigrants being forced to work for $1 a day are what puts these Private Prisons in the spotlight. Of course the article goes on with the Attorney General denouncing these actions, but what does the government really know about what happens in these prisons? A study listed that the federal prisons are beating private prisons when it comes to safety and rule statistics. Federal prisons are said to have a shady background with instances like drug trade, prison lock-downs, and inmate discipline. Personally I think private prisons is sketchy and should only be used for extreme offenders, these prisons are run differently and have different ways of dealing with things then federal prisons so I feel like there will always be some risk, as the prisons have their own loopholes. - Lobster001