History of Private Prisons
What decade saw the rise of private prisons in the U.S.?
What is the 1980s?
Name one of the two biggest private prison companies.
What is GEO Group or CoreCivic?
What racial group is most disproportionately incarcerated in private prisons?
Who are black americans?
Name a common issue in private prison facilities.
What is overcrowding, lack of healthcare, or abuse?
Has the federal government taken steps to limit private prison contracts in recent years?
What is yes, but only partially?
What federal policy helped fill private prisons by increasing incarceration?
What is the War on Drugs?
What type of contracts guarantee companies will be paid for a minimum number of inmates?
What are occupancy guarantees or "lockup quotas"?
What policy disproportionately targeted Black and Brown communities?
What are mandatory minimums or stop-and-frisk laws?
Why do private prisons often cut costs on staffing?
What is to increase profit margins?
What state was the first to ban private prisons?
What is California?
Which U.S. president heavily expanded prison contracts with private corporations?
Who is Bill Clinton?
How do private prisons make money beyond housing inmates?
What is by charging fees for phone calls, commissary, and labor?
What is one reason people of color are overrepresented in prisons?
What is systemic racism in policing and sentencing?
What kind of mental health care do private prisons typically provide?
What is very minimal or inadequate care?
What’s a major challenge to ending private prisons?
What is corporate lobbying?
What was the first major private prison company in the U.S.?
What is Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic)?
What is one industry that benefits from prison labor?
What is agriculture, manufacturing, or tech?
What percentage of the U.S. prison population is Black, despite being 13% of the total population?
What is about 38%?
What is the name of a common punishment used in private prisons that is considered harmful?
What is solitary confinement?
True or False: Ending private prisons would end mass incarceration.
What is false?
How did the 13th Amendment indirectly support the prison-industrial complex?
What is by allowing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime?
What financial structure ties Wall Street investors to incarceration rates?
What are private prison stocks and REITs (real estate investment trusts)?
What term describes laws that affect different groups unequally, even if they’re written as race-neutral?
What is disparate impact?
What’s a common result of underpaid, undertrained staff?
What is violence or inmate mistreatment?
What’s one alternative to incarceration that reformers are pushing for?
What are restorative justice or community-based programs?