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"Larger Inmate Population Is Boon to Private Prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this new article from the Wall Street Journal.  Here is how it starts: Prison companies are preparing for a wave of new business as the economic downturn makes it increasingly difficult for federal and state government officials to build and operate their own jails. The Federal Bureau of Prisons and several state governments have sent thousands of inmates in recent months to prisons and detention centers run by Corrections Corp. of America, Geo Group Inc. and other private operators, as a crackdown on illegal immigration, a lengthening of mandatory sentences for certain crimes and other factors have overcrowded many government facilities. Prison-policy experts expect inmate populations in 10 states to have increased by 25% or more between 2006 and 2011, according to a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).