Re:The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
by knieveltech on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @04:16PM
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"Only a tiny percentage of prisons are for profit"
Can you source that?
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Re:The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
by rayiner on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @04:27PM
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http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g...
128k out of 1.6m, or 8%. Graph of the incarcerated population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-.... The prison population started exploding in 1980 with the drug war and the war on immigration, but for-profit prisons had less than 10,000 prisoners as of 1990. It's a lagging effect--the for-profit prisons are sprouting up because we put so many people in prison, not the other way around.
