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The Pros And Cons Of Private Prisons

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Private prison began booming in the 1980s, under the presidential terms of Ronald Reagan and Bush Sr., however, it slowed down in 1990. When prison sales began to slow down in the 1990's, Clinton who was the acting president, wanted to cut the program but the Justice Department took over and began contracting private prison out to corporations again.
Private prisons are the largest business in the prison industry. About 18 corporations guard 10,000 prisoners in 27 states. (Conley, 2013 Para 3) Private prisons receive a secured amount of money for each prisoner. According to Russell Boraas, (2014) a private prison administrator in Virginia, “the secret to low operating costs is having a minimal number of guards for the maximum number of prisoners.”
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