USA: Private Prisons Love Mass Incarceration

Employees of the for-profit prison company GEO Group.

Private prison companies have helped fuel government policies which lead to an increase in prison population and boost their profits, according to a recent report.

The private prison population has grown 353.7 percent in the past 15 years, according to a studyby the Justice Policy Institute. Major private prison companies have an incentive to encourage policies which keep that number on the rise.

"Steady increases in the number of people in private prisons, especially those coming from federally contracted beds, translate into increased revenues for private prison companies," the report says.

"Since private prison companies are in the business to make money, policies that maintain or increase incarceration boost their revenues; from a business perspective, the economic and social costs of mass incarceration are 'externalities' that aren't figured into their corporate bottom line," it says.

Some of the biggest names in the private prison industry have given $835,514 to federal candidates since 2000 and a stunning $6,092,331 to state politicians in the last five elections cycles, according to data in the report.

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Hardons comment:
In other words, the companies running prisons for profit (essentially slave-labour camps like Stalin  ran). Bribe the government to pass more laws that will send you to jail to work for them. The Coalition here in the UK under the guidance of the Rothschild's Puppet multi-millionaire David Cameron are edging towards this system here in the UK.