Re: States by far largest consumer of private prisons for convicts

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Posted by Dr.J on April 23, 2026 at 07:58:04

In Reply to: Re: States by far largest consumer of private prisons for convicts posted by confused442 on April 22, 2026 at 22:07:53

I don’t know where you got the 25 to 30 percent figure, but total federal inmate population was 159,000 and the number of people incarcerated in private prisons in 2019 was over 115,000, most of them state prisoners.

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