The United States continues to house the highest total number of inmates in private prisons, but other — primarily English-speaking — nations use private prisons for a greater percentage of their inmates. Nearly one in five Australian inmates are housed in private prisons, according to the report. In Scotland, private prisons account for 17 percent of inmates and in England and Wales, 14 percent, according to The Sentencing Project. “As in the United States, immigrant detention has been a particular target of privatization in the United Kingdom, which has 73 percent of its immigrant detainees held privately,” the study notes. “And Australia, which has a wholly private immigrant detention system.”
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:43:12 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015