Incarceration at for-profit prisons in California peaked at about 7,000 prisoners in 2016, but state officials have been shifting prisoners to publicly run prisons in recent years.
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Well, this should be interesting. I think for-profit prisons are an anathema, so I’m glad California is taking this step. I suspect it will get a lot of resistance from the federal government, as California is bucking the feds on many fronts lately.
The article focuses on ICE detention centers, but it sounds like the legislation refers to all for-profit prisons.
I’ve read recently that for-profit prisons were started in 1980, and soon after that, the incarceration rate began going up. Also, private prison stocks went up immediately after Trump was elected. Now we know why.
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I am also quite pleased, Katherine. As I understand, many of the contracts states have with private prisons charge States a penalty if they fail to satisfy a minimum occupancy rate – this would partly explain the big increase in prison numbers.
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