Prisons for Profit; more people jailed incentive

Prisons for profit have a conflict of interest. The more people in prisons, the more they profit. ---BBB

Prisons for Profit
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Should incarceration be incorporated?

Corporations are running many US prisons, but are they putting profits before prisoners? America passed a grim milestone this year: One in every one hundred Americans is now behind bars. This week, NOW on PBS investigates the government's trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector and examines the controversy it's causing. We travel to Colorado, where the debate over prison privatization is boiling over.

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In Your State: Prison Costs

Use our interactive link below to find your state's prison population, how much corrections cost your state, and the ratio of corrections to higher education spending. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/states-prisons.html

Web Exclusive Video Report: Are Immigrant Detainees a New Profit Center? In a web exclusive video, NOW looks at how the private corrections industry is profiting when immigrants - including children - are held in detention centers awaiting deportation. A former employee of the Aurora Detention Center in Colorado gives us an insider's view of a detainee's life behind bars. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/immigrants-prisons.html

Read Maria Hinojosa's account of her tour of a private prison. "Later, we went to one of the prison's 'pods', essentially a wing of the prison, and I spoke to a young security officer there. She showed me a screen from the computerized prison monitoring system. On the screen the prison doors were open, when in reality the doors were shut. 'It's messed up,' she told me." http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/prisons-profits.html