Prison Industrial Complex

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like how people profiting from them instead of working to rehabilitate prisoners. The private system has surged in size since the US began experimenting with private prisons in 1984. The inmate population grew more than 1,600 percent between 1990 and 2009. Now with state budgets becoming tighter, government is looking for new solutions to relieve the stress from their wallets. One of the solutions is outsourcing prison operations. The following infographic looks at the current state of the private prison system in America.

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