The private prison industry has become an increasingly lucrative business, as the companies running them seek to increase profits by cutting inmates’ food provisions while pressuring state governors to guarantee prisons remain 90 percent full at all times. In recent years, for-profit prisons have grown in popularity. The number of private prisons
Private Prisons Pushing To Increase Profits
The privatized prison industry has allowed the Corrections Corporation of America to increase its profits by more than 500 percent in the last 20 years.