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  2. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.

  3. Kids for cash scandal - Wikipedia

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    The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. [1] In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated ...

  4. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1975 – Programs were developed to assist children with learning disabilities who entered the juvenile justice system. 1984 – A new missing and exploited children program was added. 1984 – Strong support was given to programs that strengthened families. 1988 – Studies on prison conditions within the Indian justice system.

  5. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    The private prison industry has long fueled its growth on the proposition that it is a boon to taxpayers, delivering better outcomes at lower costs than state facilities. But significant evidence undermines that argument: the tendency of young people to return to crime once they get out, for example, and long-term contracts that can leave ...

  6. Private prison - Wikipedia

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    A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available, whether occupied or not.

  7. Federal courts have allowed prisons and private medical ... - AOL

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    A legal settlement in California established that one leading private prison health provider, Corizon, had saved 35% for every low-level nurse who did the work of an RN. Prisons may have a single ...

  8. President Biden just signed an executive order to phase out ...

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    On Tuesday, President Biden signed an executive order that directs the Department of Justice to end federal use of private prisons. "To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based ...

  9. Why Private Prisons Will Lock Up Your Returns - AOL

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    The answer: private prisons. However, a. Pop quiz: What's a $74 billion industry with a potential customer pool of 1.6 million users, a monthly membership cost of $1,500, and a retention rate that ...