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(1998) states that about 30,000 inmates in the U.S. alone are now in privatized prisons.

Interestingly, a 1989 survey of prisoners in the United States revealed that a majority of respondents indicated a preference for private prisons and regarded such institutions as superior in terms of quality of life and services than public prisons (Private prisons, 1998). Among the advantages of private prisons, inmates and corrections authorities also identified superior technologies and the more efficient use of reduced staff. Private sector firms

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