New Report Names Nearly 4,000 Companies Profiting Off of Private Prison Industry

New Report Names Nearly 4,000 Companies Profiting Off of Private Prison Industry​
Common Dreams by Eoin Higgins
4/30/19

A new report provides information on which corporations are profiting from the private prison industry. 

The report (pdf), which was released by criminal justice advocacy group Worth Rises, is based on a database run by the organization that lists a total 3,900 companies in 12 sectors that make money off of the prison industrial complex. 
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The scope of the income taken in by these companies, the report says, is in the tens of billions. 

"Today, more than half of the $80 billion spent annually on incarceration by government agencies is used to pay the thousands of vendors that serve the criminal legal system. They are healthcare providers, food suppliers, and commissary merchants, among others. And many have devised strategies to extract billions more from the directly impacted communities supporting their incarcerated loved ones."

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