Why do people think America needs making great again?
Because it elected trumpf? (Fair play, I know it didn't really!)
For-profit prison hold about 6% of the country's prisoners; so, most of the billions being spent go to government prisons. They don't call them profits but the people that run those prisons still benefit from the funding. The warden of a government prison or private prison both know they can increase their salary and status by increasing the size and budget of their institution. The whole claim about for-profit prisons greatly exaggerate their share of the "market."
MAGA was a successful marketing ploy. Stop reading so much into it.
Mason Melchizedek (03-22-2019)
When Mr. Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017, the national debt was $19.9 trillion, according to U.S. Treasury data. Since then, the GOP-led Congress has passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut bill and a two-year spending deal which, together, are expected to drive the deficit and debt further upward. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates annual deficits could top $2.1 trillion per year in the next decade.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-d...rst-time-ever/
So that's how he's going to make America great again!
iolo (03-23-2019)
8.5 percent and went up 47 percent since 2000.https://www.sentencingproject.org/pu...united-states/ Lots of states have no private prisons. Those that allow it has far more that 6 or 9.percent.
Obama was phasing them out. Sessions reversed that.
This post make no sense. The question was who wants to make America great again? I answered Bill Clinton because he was obviously one of the people who did so. Plus, I am not a trumpster. So, there was no deflection from any Trumpster. You make wild unfounded assumptions.
The latest data I found came from the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2016. Due to some prison reforms the total prison population has declined since 2010 from 1,613,803 to 1,506,757 in 2016 (87% of those are in state prisons).
9% of federal and state prisoners were in privately operated facilities in 2016 down 800 prisoners (2%) from 2015. This includes nonsecure community corrections centers and home confinement.
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p16.pdf
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