Overcrowding,
unattended health issues and abusive behavior is rampant in private
prisons, according to a federal review released Thursday, and the
Bureau of Prisons that oversees conditions has enabled some of the
practices and let others slip by.
Private
prisons, or “contract prisons,” have mushroomed since the BOP
started outsourcing immigrant detention. The reason, says the new
report, is that public prisons were at overcapacity with “federal
inmates who are primarily low security, criminal alien adult males
with 90 months or less remaining to serve on their sentences.”
With
almost five times as many beds today as 20 years ago, the U.S. had
too many immigrants to fit in bureau-run prisons, so it signed
contracts with for-profit prisons—around since 1983—to help out.
The report leaves out that each private prison company spent millions
lobbying to ramp up detentions.
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report:
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