Private prisons

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)

בתע כלא פרטיים

Name (Latin)

Private prisons

Name (Arabic)

السجون الخاصة

Other forms of name

For-profit prisons

Privately operated prisons

Proprietary prisons

Wikidata: Q386432

Library of congress: sh2021000077

Sources of Information

Work cat: Inside private prisons, 2019:p. 2 (private prisons) page 3 (for-profit prisons) page 231 (privately operated prisons)
Private prisons in America, ©2006:title page (private prisons) pages 3-4 (After the Civil War, the convict lease system was created to keep alive involuntary servitude for private profit; in modern times, prisoners are no longer profitable solely for their labor, but for their ability to generate per diem payments for their private keepers, making imprisonment for private profit once again a viable economic industry in the United States)
Logan, Charles H. The propriety of proprietary prisons, 1987:caption (proprietary prisons) page 35 (a small but growing number of penal institutions are now privately owned or managed under contract to government agencies)
The Sentencing Project WWW site, Nov. 24 2020(The federal government and 27 states utilized private prisons operated by for-profit and non-profit entities during 2016; for-profit prisons)

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