“Jeff Sessions is a private prison enthusiast,” said Donald Cohen, executive director of In the Public Interest, a left-leaning Washington non-profit. A private prison – also known as a for-profit prison – is run by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. In the U.S., there are two leading private prison providers – GEO Group and CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corp. of America). As incarceration rates continued to climb, the private prison industry grew with it – expanding at exponential rates. “Certain private prison companies employ shrewd tactics to obtain more and more government contracts to incarcerate prisoners,” the 2011 ACLU report “Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration,” claimed.

Source: Fox News March 16, 2017 16:31 UTC