For the first time since 1852, the state of California has sent inmates to private prisons. It just sent 700 prisoners to out
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California has signed a contract with Nashville-based Corrections Corp. of America to house as many as 4,000 prisoners.
Due to rampant prison overcrowding, at least 31 states have turned to the private prison industry. The stocks of the three leading private prison companies have shot up, and the number of inmate beds in private prisons has jumped six fold in the last decade.
Over 2.2 million people currently are incarcerated in the United States—the modern-day “prison house of nations.” U.S. prisoners are overwhelmingly working class; most are people of color. All suffer greatly at the hands of the capitalists’ prison-industrial complex.
