Private prison
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A private prison or for-profit prison, jail, or detention center is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate for each prisoner confined in the facility.
Today, the privatization of prisons refers both to the takeover of existing public facilities by private operators and to the building and operation of new and additional prisons by for-profit prison companies.
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See also
- Correctional Services Corporation
- East Mississippi Correctional Facility
- Prison–industrial complex
- Secret prison
- Wackenhut Corp.
- Walnut Grove Correctional Facility
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