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CoreCivic and Geo both own and operate the majority of prisons in the US.
by formerkrogemp 4y ago
CoreCivic and Geo both own and operate the majority of prisons in the US.
- hirvi74 4y agoOnly ~8% of prisoners are incarcerated in private facilities. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-in-the-united-states/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
- formerkrogemp 4y ago"Companies own or manage 75% of U.S. detention facilities. Two of the biggest companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, are publicly traded. In the correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-group-and-corecivic-are-struggling-under-trump.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-grou... Well, it seems I need to brush up on some reading then.