more people to put to work. This is another huge ethical and social
problem that private prisons face today. Many private prisons could be
gaining benefits from forced labor in their prisons and the United States
would be none the wiser.
Keywords: Private prisons, abuse, security, safety, power
Private prisons are a not so well-known part of the United States that
you might have never heard of. For reference, public prisons are
government-owned prisons that abide by the same laws as all other
public prisons. Private prisons have separate owners that create their
own rules outside of what public prisons have to follow. A popular term
for private prisons is “for profit prisons” because the owners of the
prisons are allowed to use their power to force the prisoners to do
manual labor with no compensation. While not all private prisons abuse
their power in this way, it is easy to see how some would. Making
money off of higher incarceration rates in the United States is just an
example of a moral wrong that could be occurring in so many private
prisons, but we would never know about it. Most private prisons are
supposed to be used as extra space for when public prisons have no more
room. However, many private prison owners do not accept many new
prisoners into their prisons because these prisoners do not fit the
standards that the prisons create for their inmates. Going even further,
many private prisons also leave their prisoners in unsafe and unsecure