After reading the Marshall Project’s article “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Private Prisons” (link below),

After reading the Marshall Project’s article “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Private Prisons” (link below), consider the following questions in a well-written initial posting determining should the United States allow significant increases of private prisons:

1) Should the United States allow for private prisons? Why or why not?

2) After reading the article, has your opinion changed? Why or why not?

3) What does the Private Prison Information Act propose?

4) How much money was spent by CCA lobbying against the Private Prison Information Act?

5) Are private prisons ethical? Why or why not?

6) Should organizations like the CCA be able to lobby?

7) Why are some resistant to passing the Private Prison Information Act?

8) Are private prisons cheaper or more efficient?

9) What do we know about private prisons and inmate safety?

Please see the article “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Private Prisons” by The Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/18/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-private-prisons