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2020 Candidates on Private Prisons

Posted on December 2, 2019 (June 24, 2020) by ProCon.org

Private prisons housed about 8.2% of the total federal and state prison population and 73% of the detained immigrant population in 2017. Explore what the 2020 candidates think about continuing the use of private prisons in the US.

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