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by formerkrogemp 1320 days ago
CoreCivic and Geo both own and operate the majority of prisons in the US.
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Only ~8% of prisoners are incarcerated in private facilities.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...

"Companies own or manage 75% of U.S. detention facilities. Two of the biggest companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, are publicly traded. In the correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-grou...

Well, it seems I need to brush up on some reading then.