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PhillyTaco t1_ir27clp wrote

Reply to comment by lilsqueakyone in How Hawaii brought its population of girls in prison to zero by AmethystOrator

Incarceration levels have been going down since 2008 but we had the peak number of private prisons in 2013.

Not seeing much correlation.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/16/americas-incarceration-rate-lowest-since-1995/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/11/u-s-private-prison-population-has-declined-in-recent-years/

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