[happyscrappy]

The private prison meme is far larger than the actual number, which is eight percent. Elsewhere in this people are asking how much of US manufacturing is from prison labor, I doubt it is large enough to accurately measure.

[spacemanmatt]

Just how large is the meme, in units that can be reasonably compared to the percent of prisoners in privately-owned prisons?

[happyscrappy]

Someone would have to do a survey but I would guess that 90% of Europeans buy into it. Of course they also believe that they will be carjacked if they come to the US so I don't think their opinions are useful.