Private prison

Since 1989 big private corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO have been funneling money into politics with more than $10 million directly to candidates and roughly $25 million in lobbying. These big companies are not the usual suspects of lobby efforts like their counterparts Big Pharma and Big Oil, these companies are the two biggest contributors to the third, silent influencers of American politics, Private Prisons (Cohen). Private prisons take responsibility for…

For-profit prison are believed to have started in Amsterdam and Hamburg in seventeenth century. These prisons profited by charging a fee for admittance, discharge, food, water, and lodging. In 1825 the state of Kentucky was having financial issues, so Joel Scott paid the state one thousand dollars to open a two hundred and fifty bed facility. Twenty-six years later California had an influx of crime and could not manage so they leased their prisons to two businesses for ten years. Fast forward…

A Private Prison or For-Profit Prison is place in which individuals are physically confined or incarcerated by a government agency. 8 % of America's prisons are corporate run. These places have been corrupted by third parties and the use of inmate labor. The U.S. government should litigate the privatization of correctional facilities and the use of inmate labor. According to NPR.Org 1 in 3 black men , 1 in 6 latino men and 1 in 17 white men will spend time behind bars during their lifetime.…

1a This article hopes to break down some of the myths these private prison corporations have used to push their agenda and discuss how they are untrue. By doing so, the reader can form his/her own conclusions on how pervasive and detrimental private prisons have become within our communities. 1b The welfare of everyone in these facilities, both employees and inmates, should be of the utmost priority. Even though this should take precedence before anything else, the well-being of the individuals…

necessary to effectively take the extra step and practice competent analysis techniques. For Assignment #4 I focused on two huge issues with the American prison system, overcrowding and the effects of the private prison industry. This topic is similar to what I wrote for the opinion piece but with a direct focus on overcrowding and the private prison industry. I picked this topic because it is something I…

that create a private facility, it has seen to shift the work force motives. A popular term used to describe them is "for-profit." Because they are made for intention of making money, it is very cost efficient in a solely economic view-point. The problem with privatizing a prison is that they seek for the highest occupancy rate so that they can make the most profit possible. The whole industry is run on the amount of prisoners they have locked up per-quota. Some of these private prisons…

Private prisons, also known as for-profit prisons, are alternative institutions contracted through the government that take the place of typical prisons. They are funded generally through businesses and not the government, where taxpayers' money ends up paying for the prisoners. Private prisons are contracted through the government and expected to maintain a quota of a specific number of prisoners and to provide basic, essential services to every prisoner, if needed. There is a grand deal of…

More privatized prisons in the system would only make the owners of the prison a lot more richer. Many may say that these owners of the prisons are helping the government to deal with the overcrowding situation. But how are the owners helping the government, it looks like the owners are helping themselves. The owners are taking advantage of the government's problems. Christopher Petrella, a researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, and he comes out to say " Private prisons set up…

moving parts, and it can be complex. One of the things that nearly everyone thinks of when they hear the term “criminal justice” is jail or prison. The purpose and types of jails, the advantages and disadvantages of private prisons, and the identification of the challenges of prison life are the subjects that will be covered in this essay. Are jails and prisons really necessary? Are they to be considered inhuman? Is it really better for a person to be isolated from the rest of the world? These…

Private prisons were introduced in 1852 and have been around ever since. Privatized prions are owned by the vanguard group and fidelity investments. The systems of confinement in this country hold more than 2.4 million people in 1719 state prisoners, 102 federal prisons, 2259 juvenile correctional facilities, 3282 local jails, and 79 Indian country jails in the U.S. territory. Between 1990 and 2009, the number of incarcerated inmates in private facilities increased by more than 16 percent. The…