Even though the USA make up 5 percent of the world’s population, they still house one fourth of all incarcerated people in the world. The statistics make this look really bad for the country, however, the privet prisons incarcerating prisoners for the government, are actually making money on every cell empty or occupied. Unfortunately, occupied cells are paid better for than empty cells. This factor makes the whole humanity-situation much harder to improve, because prisoners will then try to keep their prisoners and not let them out.
Because of its prison system the US is the only country where more men are raped than women. In 1995 a federal judge found a stunning pattern of staff assaults, abusive use of electronic stun devices …show more content…
The program employs around 13’000 prisoners per year, according to BBC News that equals every two-hundred prisoner are a part of it, and just 700 of those are part of it as an opportunity for freedom. The companies earn a gross revenue of $609,7 million. Some of the companies implicated in exploiting prison labour includes McDonald’s, Microsoft, Pepsi, Shell, Starbucks, WalMart and Wendy’s, with many others.
Because of this, some of the states even tries to get a bigger amount of their population behind bars. On the one hand, this is an advantage for companies that are already big and popular. More prisoners, equals more earnings to private companies, which then becomes even bigger. On the other hand, for smaller companies, that could have a good chance of becoming more comprehensive, this is totally