September 20, 2013
Prison-Industrial Complex Watch: Prison Bed Quotas Give Lawmakers No Incentive To Reform Sentencing
As if the very existence of for-profit prisons wasn’t bad enough, we now learn that these companies have negotiated prison bed quotas. These quotas require 60%, and sometimes as high as 100% of beds to be filled, otherwise the state pays prisons for the unused beds.
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