conditions. Private prisons are not a good alternative to public prisons
because private prisons can abuse their power over their inmates by
forcing them into unpaid labor and terrible treatment, they have safety
and security issues, and the owners of private prisons can make revenue
off of higher incarceration rates in the United States.
Rampant Abuse of Power in Private Prisons
Abuse of power in private prisons is a moral wrong that brings up the
ethics of private prisons and whether they are abiding by the law. Private
prisons are abusing their power over their prisoners because some of
them force their prisoners to work for them without any pay. On top of
that, many private prisons have faced allegations of physical abuse as
well as terrible treatment of prisoners. While many private prison
owners and companies will deny these allegations, cases of this
occurring do pop up. Even “the nation’s second largest private prison
company” (Woodruff, 2017) has been accused of forcing their prisoners
to do labor for them with no compensation. This lawsuit has been “‘the
first time that a private prison company has ever been accused of forced
labor’” (Woodruff, 2017) and also was the first time that the claims
stated allowed the lawsuit to “go forward under the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act and the bans in federal law on forced labor” (Woodruff,
2017). This claim made against the second largest private prison
company in the United States strongly suggests that there is a chance of