“Most quotas require at least 90 percent of the beds in a prison to be filled, according to a new report by the advocacy group In the Public Interest, and quotas were part of nearly two-thirds of the contracts the group analyzed. Prison companies use the profits to expand, effectively pulling the strings on state prison populations as lawmakers must incarcerate a certain number of people — or pay. The state of Arizona recently paid the prison company Management & Training Corp. $3 million for empty beds when a 97 percent quota wasn’t met, reported HuffPost’s Chris Kirkham. The U.S. leads the world in incarcerating its residents, with one in 100 adults behind bars.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prisons_n_3955686.html

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