The profits in prisons

Thanks to this post at Think Outside the Cage, I saw new information about who profits from increased prison populations:  private prison corporations.  As this Forbes article details, “Corrections Corp. of America, which operates prisons and detention facilities, said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit climbed 37 percent, as inmate populations rose and new contracts went into effect.”

Some recent related posts:

• Resisting the call for more prison spending
• “Justice Reinvestment” in Texas
• An amazing cartoon on modern prison realities
• Important new Vera report on “Reconsidering Incarceration”