The Worst Company in the World Wants You In Prison (with Henry Rollins) • Prison Profiteers • #3
Henry Rollins profiles Prison Profiteers -six powerful institutions benefiting from locking up too many people for too long. SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bravenew...
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There is an industry here in America that wants to lock you up for as long as it can.The more people it can warehouse in cages, the more money it makes.And which private prison company made 1.7 billion last year alone?CCA, or Corrections Corporation of America, is the largest for-profit prison operatorin the United States. And it currently has around 90,000 privatized prison beds in around20 states.They get paid per day, per inmate, at their facility. What this does is provides an incentivefor them to maximize the number of of people incarcerated in their for-profit prisons.It's like the hotel industry. The hotel industry wants to keep their beds full as much as possiblebecause it means more revenue.Same thing for the private prison companies.About half o...
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There is an industry here in America that wants to lock you up for as long as it can.The more people it can warehouse in cages, the more money it makes.And which private prison company made 1.7 billion last year alone?CCA, or Corrections Corporation of America, is the largest for-profit prison operatorin the United States. And it currently has around 90,000 privatized prison beds in around20 states.They get paid per day, per inmate, at their facility. What this does is provides an incentivefor them to maximize the number of of people incarcerated in their for-profit prisons.It's like the hotel industry. The hotel industry wants to keep their beds full as much as possiblebecause it means more revenue.Same thing for the private prison companies.About half o...
