Private prison

Private prisons: How US corporations make money out of locking you up

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• published: 07 Nov 2013
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Today the US is home to 5% of the world's population but a quarter of the world's prisoners. It also has the highest rate of youth imprisonment and on any given day there are more than 70,000 youths in detention. And the biggest winners of this mass incarceration? The for-profit prison companies whose business models essentially depend on locking more and more people up. StoneOcean's music: www.stoneocean.info StoneOcean's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RatedmusicOfficial Brave New Foundation's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/bravenewfoundation Brave New Foundation's "Beyond Bars" YouTube series: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1EC2F68766984AEE Where we got our information for this video: https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf http://ir.correctionscorp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=117983&p;=irol-reportsannual http://www.npr.org/2012/04/24/151276620/firm-leaves-miss-after-its-prison-is-called-cesspool https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights-criminal-law-reform/picture-such-horror-should-be-unrealized-anywhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMa5odBQsxU&list;=SP1EC2F68766984AEE&index;=4 http://www.eastidahonews.com/2012/06/former-prison-beating-victim-dies/ http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/aclu-private-prison-company-odds-over-staffing-idaho-prison http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/article/criminal-how-lockup-quotas-and-low-crime-taxes-guarantee-profits-private-prison-corporations https://www.aclu.org/cca https://www.aclu.org/maps/sexual-abuse-immigration-detention-facilities http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-newsbreak-prison-company-leaving-idaho http://bigstory.ap.org/article/judge-cca-contempt-prison-understaffing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/mark-ciavarella-jr_n_924324.html http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/23/cash_for_kids_firms_behind_juvenile http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-multimedia/2013/10/9/immigration-and-privateprisoncompaniesinfographic.html http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/10/a_25m_settlement_is_reached_in.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/private-prison-companies-making-big-bucks-locking-undocumented-immigrants-article-1.1127465?print http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111127105458655442.html http://en.avaaz.org/1300/obama-martin-luther-king-racist-us-justice-5-shocking-facts Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/TRUsub Why you should subscribe to Truthloader: http://bit.ly/17SR1Yj More videos from Truthloader: Is China taking over the world?: http://bit.ly/HwHcmv Saudi whips and beats victim for looking at his wife: http://bit.ly/1aLlSET Manufacturing consent - how Edward Bernays hacked democracy: http://bit.ly/1gBzxUj The NSA has collected your address book: http://bit.ly/1cswbRD Syrian rebels kill 190 civilians and take 200 hostage: http://bit.ly/HrDk6N Abductions and executions: Counterterrorism under Obama: http://bit.ly/18G9zoK The war on drugs is a war on you (Part One): http://bit.ly/19pXcgC A race for what's left of the planet - The Arctic battleground: http://bit.ly/15hsbOy Obama's phonecall with Iran: http://bit.ly/16PFq6x 7 things you need to know about Vladimir Putin: http://bit.ly/1h4oa1Z Somalia's al-Shabaab -- the people behind the terrorist attacks in Kenya: http://bit.ly/18ZphRu The five worst weapons still in use: http://bit.ly/16byMpR Syria chemical weapons -- Sarin gas attack near Damascus?: http://bit.ly/19Jptpa Who are the Carlyle Group?: http://bit.ly/14mq384 Who are Hezbollah?: http://bit.ly/18J0jmt How many kids have US drones killed in Pakistan?: http://bit.ly/17bxg7P How the war on drugs in Mexico began (Part 1 of 4): http://bit.ly/1aSY156 The 3 best documented UFO encounters: http://bit.ly/1dBMFlj Check out our top 20 videos playlist: http://bit.ly/V55Vna Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/truthloader Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/truthloader Join us on Google+: http://google.com/+truthloader Read our reddit: http://reddit.com/r/truthloader Truthloader is a channel dedicated to citizen journalism. We find the best examples of crowd-sourced video and independent content, then use our expertise to add context and analysis. We respond to the stories you're interested in, so if you've got a story you'd love us to get to the bottom of, tweet us, Facebook us, or respond to our videos with a comment - and perhaps check out our reddit.