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America’s incarceration rate is in decline

(www.theatlantic.com)
234 points paulpauper | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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GuinansEyebrows ◴[25 Jun 25 17:50 UTC] No.44380002[source]▶
this is great news. but...

i fear the new avenues of business sought by companies that operate for-profit prisons - i don't expect they'll just eat the losses of declining populations in their main moneymakers, and we're already starting to see them work on detention facilities for DHS etc.

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FireBeyond ◴[25 Jun 25 18:01 UTC] No.44380126[source]▶
> i don't expect they'll just eat the losses of declining populations in their main moneymakers

Most of them (probably all) have contracts that stipulate they get paid per bed they provide, whether or not it's occupied.

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1. GuinansEyebrows ◴[25 Jun 25 18:13 UTC] No.44380259[source]▶
sure, but if the beds are empty, they're less likely to get new contracts.