re: #519 screaming_eagle

I don’t know anything about privately owned prisons. Who’s running them and where?

Big business here in Louisiana. Owned by private investors, paid by the state a per-person rate for incarceration. Often a catch-all for the worst of the worst of ex-state prison/jail employees.

Here’s a NYT story from 200 about the privately run prison (abuse, lawsuits, etc) in Jena, LA.