Private Prisons In America

America loves to claim they`re the beacon of freedom throughout the world and yet ironically, it has the highest prison population in the world. According the ACLU, America, which only makes up 5% of the world’s populace, holds nearly 25% of the world’s inmates, surpassing Russia. This doesn`t add up when compared to the statistics. If crime rate is at a low, why is the prison population so high? What is contributing to the mass incarceration across the nation? Well, with the evidence presented, it would appear that the private sector is the main contributor to this new American pandemic and more specifically, the privatization of prisons

where's that goes on the privatization of prisons. Providing a broad study between public and

By contrast, DHS’s immigration detention program detains around 400,000 people every year. The growth of immigration detention has been astonishing. In 1994, approximately 6,000 noncitizens were detained per day. The daily average had surpassed 20,000 individuals by 2001 and 33,000 by 2008. To manage the growing detainee population, ICE has increasingly turned to contracted facilities such as for-profit prison corporations. This growth has allowed private prison companies such as GEO Group (GEO) and CoreCivic (formerly known as CCA) to significantly profit from labor savings. Private companies are incentivized to cut medical staffing and deny care to maximize shareholder return. Maximizing that return is the primary goal. These companies have managed to accomplish their goal by forcing their detainees to work and upkeep the facilities for little to no pay, saving millions in labor costs. In the year 2012, “GEO brought in an estimated $33 to $72 million in profits.” CCA, estimated profits ranging from “$30 to $77 million, or about 25% of the company’s total profits.” To give some perspective, a facility in Adelanto California, owned and operated by GEO, would pay $109,865 annually in detainee wages at $1 a day. If GEO were to pay the state’s minimum wage, they would be spending $7,910,280 annually in labor. This gives GEO a total savings of

The privatization of prisons serves as a solution to economic problems. Privatization essentially allows for large corporations, such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group Inc, to profit from caging humans. State governments allow corporations to buy local prisons because privatization lifts the fiscal responsibilities of the states. While privatization eliminates a financial burden from states, it comes with great compromises. For example, the Lake Erie Correctional Institute was the first prison purchased by a for-profit corporation: the CCA. When the CCA purchased the prison, the city of Conneaut, Ohio faced many hardships. Almost immediately, many long-time employees of the prison were fired. The CCA replaced experienced employees

Thesis: Private prisons actually exacerbate many of the issues they were designed to solve by incentivizing increased incarceration, and at the same time they produce lower value than regular prisons while ultimately costing more, such that private prisons should be abolished and incarceration should remain exclusively public.

Prisoner outsourcing in the United States is originally attributed to New York’s Newgate Prison in 1802. The prison was able to contract with local manufactures, effectively offsetting rising prison costs. By 1825, prisons throughout the country, including Auburn, Baltimore, Charlestown, and Wethersfield, were realizing profits resulting from “prison contracted labor industries.”

At present, most private prisons are maintained by third party or private contractors under the auspices of contractual relations with a governmental agency. New prisons have been developed to address issues of overcrowding

About the time we decided privatization is out of control, here comes a complaint that ends up with an FCC ruling that boggles the mind. Telecommunication companies hold contracts with prisons to provide phone access with both pre-paid and pay-as-you-go access. What they charge is outrageous, and the profit goes to the prison.

A privately operated Mississippi prison that a federal judge once concluded was effectively run by gangs in collusion with corrupt prison guards, closed Thursday, its prisoners transferred to other state facilities, officials said.

The minor financial benefit they may provide is not enough to offset the detriments they have on our society. In addition to society the people inside the prison suffer from the cut budget as well losing out on healthcare and other quality of life benefits. Beyond this the ethical idea of using people's punishment and suffering as a form of profit is deplorable. These corporation are then using the money they make to influence our country's lawmakers encouraging the imprisonment of more and more people and doing much less to help the people already inside the prisons. Our nation should stop the expansion of private prisons ,which have expanded significantly the past few years, and then begin to phase them out allowing for the growth of a healthier justice system (Mason, Too Good to be True Private Prisons in

U.S. to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates. This was an article title created by Charlie Savage, a Pulitzer Prize winner and correspondent for the New York Times in Washington on August 18, 2016. Savage wrote how the Obama administration would begin to phase out the use of private run prisons to hold inmates. This was ultimately due to the research done on the quality of life for inmates, the safety of inmates and prison employees, and the security of private run prisons. In the article Sally Q. Yates, the deputy attorney general said in less words that private run prisons do not save substantially on costs. First what is a private prison? A private prison is a prison or jail that incarcerates individuals and is run by a

Juan now speaks out about the inhumane conditions of private prisons. MTC, the third largest for-profit prison corporation is attempting to secure a contract for a 600 bed facility just to detain immigrants in Juan’s very own Wyoming, And he is using his experience to educate others and make sure it doesn’t happen.

This is a relatively new industry and it is startling to imagine how much power they will have in another 30-40 years. They have already managed to manipulate the fourth amendment. At this rate, your simple municipal violation might turn into an arrest record in the future. One possible sign of things to come happened with a Texas man, Jory Enck. He was thrown in jail for allegedly not returning a GED study guide to the public library.

The United States have been using private prison for many years. The use of private prisons has steered up a huge controversy worldwide. The main two private prison companies are CAA and the Geo Group, Inc. The idea for the use of private prisons is that the government will save more money. However, the evidence has been mixed over the years on whether the use of private prisons saves money or not. There have been cases where private prisons have cost more than state prison. Also, the use of private prisons has been associated with various cases of health issues and acts of violence. This problem qualifies as a criminal justice issue because of the amount of money that private prison companies are receiving from the amount

The emergence of the private prison system in the early 1980s was in reaction to the problem of overcrowding within the federal prisons due to the Regan eras strong anticrime policies. The main issue that the federal prisons were faced with was that the prison population was increasing rapidly due to the war on drugs with a mandatory minimum sentencing law and later the three strikes law. The war on drugs is thought to have begun under the under the Regan administration; however, it more adequately dates back to the Nixon administration. The policies of the Regan administration built onto the foundation of the Nixon White House and further strengthen the policy put in place under Nixon’s term in office. President Nixon coined the term war