Why Minorities Are Even More Overrepresented In Private Prisons

A new analysis of America's prison demographics has revealed for-profit prisons jail minorities even more disproportionately than publicly operated prisons. For-profit prisons — like those operated by Corrections Corporation of America — use contractual provisions to target young, healthy (and therefore more profitable) inmates, the study in the journal "Radical Criminology" found. And younger prisoners tend to be minorities, due to drastic changes in prison demographics over the last 30 ye...