Day: September 15, 2020
How mass incarceration became ‘a business opportunity’ in America
This is part 1 of Yahoo Finance’s Illegal Tender podcast about the for-profit prison industry. Listen to the series here. Mass incarceration in the U.S. grew over decades as more politicians with tough-on-crime stances became elected to office and laws changed surrounding sentencing. In that environment, the private prison industry became a place to generate a