American Business Culture and the Penal System

The costly casualties that hit hospitals by way of taxpayer wallets, the big business of Wall Street floating high-profit construction bonds and an increasingly viewed prison population as a pool of cheap labor, are some of the many ways in which relations exist between the American Business Culture and the penal system. The shift has gone from jails, to correctional facilities, to places of profit, has forever changed the way in which the American Business Culture views the Penal System. The American Penal System has the fastest growing population of any “industry” in the world today. The Survey of Inmates of State Correctional Facilities, 1986 states that “The number of people in the criminal justice system will surpass the number in higher education”. These facts in turn create negative and positive results. These facts in themselves relate to the American Business Culture.

In the United States, the concept of prison privatization was first proposed early in the 1980s. By the middle of that decade a number of firms were established, eager to take over prison and jail facilities and to build new prisons to exploit the needs of states that were str

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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)