The Problem With Private Prisons

Check out this great opinion piece at CNBC.com by David Shapiro of the ACLU National Prison Project about the problems with the for-profit, private prison industry.

Says David:

Now is the time for serious criminal justice reform, not privatization schemes. The private prison industry feeds off the mass incarceration problem and cannot be part of the solution. The only real way to cut prison spending is to cut the number of people we keep in prison.

David is the author of a forthcoming, comprehensive report on private prisons. The ACLU’s work on the issue will be featured in a CNBC documentary on October 18.

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