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by idoubtit
2468 days ago
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I suspect that figure is wrong, because the Bureau of Justice Statistics does not publish the rate on prisons but on prisoners. "As of 2016, 8.5% of the prisoners are in private for-profit prisons. Since 2000, the number of people in private prisons has increased 47%, compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 9%." Source: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso... So, if the annual increase rate has not change since 2016, as of 2019 about 9.3% of the prisoners are in for-profit jails.
[edit: computed the rate, it is not "more than 10%"] |
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