Lockup Quotas Help For-Profit Prison Companies Keep Profits High and Prisons Full Read the article: prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12249/lockup-quotas-help-profit-prison-companies-keep-profits-high-and-prisons-full "A new report from In the Public Interest, a resource center on privatization and public contracting, documented for the first time that some 65 percent of contracts between for-profit prisons and state or local governments include bed guarantees or "lockup quotas." These contractual clauses require that a state keeps prisons full, usually at ninety percent, but in some cases up to a one hundred percent occupancy requirement. If judges and law enforcement are not pushing enough people into for-profit prisons to meet the quota, taxpayers are on the hook for any unused beds. “Private prisons have gamed the system and tied the hands of policymakers across the country to an alarming degree,” says report author Shar Habibi, In the Public Interest Research and Policy Director."
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 18:47:19 +0000
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