Private Prisons, Public Shame

A 2012 NCCD study informs this piece, discussing the realities of the private prison industry. One of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies, the GEO Group, just contracted with the state of Washington to move up to 1,000 inmates far from their home state to a private prison in the Midwest.

A 2012 NCCD study informs this piece, discussing the realities of the private prison industry. One of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies, the GEO Group, just contracted with the state of Washington to move up to 1,000 inmates far from their home state to a private prison in the Midwest. This type of familial separation alongside the political lobbying of such for-profit prison companies calls into question incarceration as a profit tool. Read the article here. Check out NCCD’s 2001 and 2012 studies on private prisons.