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1. www.investopedia.com › articles › investingThe Business Model of Private Prisons - Investopedia

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   Oct 8, 2024 · How a Private Prison Makes Money. A public prison is not a profit-generating entity. The end goal is to house incarcerated individuals in an attempt to rehabilitate them or remove them from the ...

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2. www.forbes.com › sites › jbrewerAre You Unknowingly Investing In Private Prisons? - Forbes

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   Feb 25, 2021 · It’s easy to be invested unknowingly in private prisons. Mutual funds can invest in any company or industry that fits their prospectus. If you didn’t make a specific choice in your employer ...

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4. www.currentaffairs.org › news › 2020How Private Prisons Profit from Forced Labor - Current Affairs

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   Oct 26, 2020 · filed 26 October 2020 in Criminal Punishment. While incarcerated at the Stewart Detention Center, Wilhen Barrientos —an immigrant from Guatemala—was forced to labor for CoreCivic, the infamous for-profit prison company. During his incarceration, he worked in the facility’s kitchen, making between $1 and $4 per day as part of the ...

5. www.mic.com › impact › how-private-prisons-turnedHow private prisons turned criminal justice into big business

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   Feb 20, 2024 · In 2010, the Private Corrections Institute, a citizen watchdog group, responded to a joint report by the Reason Foundation and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association that advocated for sending ...

6. theweek.com › articles › 788226The private prison industry, explained - The Week

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   Aug 6, 2018 · Today, private prisons incarcerate about 9 percent of all U.S. prisoners, and 19 percent of all federal prisoners. About 75 percent of all immigrants detained by ICE are also in private prisons ...

7. ciceroinstitute.org › research › aligning-profitAligning Profit with Outcomes in Private Prison Procurement

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   Aug 27, 2024 · An example is Social Purpose Corrections, a non-profit prison operator founded by a former warden who seeks to compete against private prisons without the moral complications of profit motives. 14 Because Social Purpose Corrections is a new entrant that has not yet operated a facility—even though its founder and staff have—the non-profit may not compete for prison contracts in certain ...

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   Is a public prison a profit-generating entity?

   • A public prison is not a profit-generating entity. The end goal is to house incarcerated individuals in an attempt to rehabilitate them or remove them from the streets. A private prison, on the other hand, is run by a corporation. That corporation’s end goal is to profit from anything it deals in.

   The Business Model of Private Prisons - Investopedia

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   Are private prisons making a lot of money?

   • It all comes back to a central issue: that private prisons are trying to make max money off of putting people into cages. They're also rife with issues; people formerly incarcerated in private prisons are twice as likely to report being sexually victimized by staff as people in public facilities, for example.

   How private prisons turned criminal justice into big business

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   Can a 401(k) & 403(b) fund invest in private prisons?

   • It’s easy to be invested unknowingly in private prisons. Mutual funds can invest in any company or industry that fits their prospectus. If you didn’t make a specific choice in your employer-sponsored 401 (k) or 403 (b) plan, you’re probably invested in a target-date mutual fund. I haven’t seen a target-date fund exclude any investments.

   Are You Unknowingly Investing In Private Prisons? - Forbes

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   Why do private prisons incarcerate so much?

   • Private companies argued that their new construction designs and use of electronic surveillance would let them operate larger prisons with a smaller staff, saving the public money. Today, private prisons incarcerate about 9 percent of all U.S. prisoners, and 19 percent of all federal prisoners.

   The private prison industry, explained - The Week

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   How does a private company manage a prison?

   • Once the contract is signed, the private company takes over responsibility for managing the facility. It has to hire staff, keep the facility stocked with supplies, provide programming for inmates, and everything else. Private companies also assume all legal liability for the facilities they manage.

   How private prisons turned criminal justice into big business

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   Do for-profit institutions rehabilitate prisoners?

   • For-profit institutions have no incentive to rehabilitate their prisoners, but every incentive to keep recidivism rates high so they can get future contracts. The more people imprisoned, the higher the profits. In 2016, the Obama administration announced that the use of private prisons at the federal level would be phased out.

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9. www.pbs.org › newshour › economyCheap labor means prisons still turn a profit, even during a ...

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   May 8, 2020 · Proponents of for-profit prisons say the government relies on contractors for services it cannot always provide on its own, from the brick and mortar of a new facility to phone time and food for ...