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Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The degree to which the billion-dollar private prison industry receives economic development subsidies from local, state, and federal governments is determined. Following an executive summary, this report looks at: the rise and decline of private prisons in the U.S.; financing the private prison industry -- private and public money; economic development subsidies given to private prisons; and public policy options. Appendixes provide information about methodology, company profiles, and facility profiles. One finding is that 73% of the big privately built and operated prisons receive subsidies.