PRISONERS
OF PROFIT
on beds. The harsh conditions
confronting youth inside YSI’s
facilities, moreover, show the
serious problems that can arise
when government hands over social services to private contractors and essentially walks away.
Those held at YSI facilities
across the country have frequent-
HUFFINGTON
11.03.13
In Florida, where private contractors have in recent years taken
control of all of the state’s 3,300
youth prison beds, YSI now manages more than $100 million in
contracts, about 10 percent of the
system. Its facilities have generated conspicuously large numbers of
claims that guards have assaulted
Those held at YSI facil