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Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons - Office of Justice ...
www.ojp.govmarket. With jail and prison populations totaling approximately 1.7 million in the United States, the estimated 116,626-bed capacity of private correctional facilities makes up less than 7 percent of the U.S. market. Less than 5 percent (52,370 inmates) of the total 1.2 million U.S.␣ prison population is housed in private facilities.
© 2003 by Angela Y. Davis - collective liberation
collectiveliberation.orgThe racial composition of this prison population is revealing. Latinos, who are now in the majority, account for 35.2 percent; African-Americans 30 percent; and ... country in the early 1970s. In fact, California can claim the largest women's prison in the world, Valley State Prison for Women, with its more than thirty-five hundred inhabitants.