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Comment by dragonwriter

3 years ago

> Prisons in the USA are for-profit enterprises

About 7-8% of US jail and prisoners inmates are in for-profit correctional institutions, most are in public institutions which are not operated for profit.

Private, for profit prisons are an issue, but they are very much not the norm in the US.

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