Interpreting the law

According to a report published by the sentencing project on June 15 2023, the federal government and to states incarcerated 96,370 people in private prisons in 2021, amounting to about 8% of America's prison population. Private prisons are not used to house prisoners in the other 23 states.but private prisons also hold nearly 79% of those detained for U.S immigration and customs Enforcement nationwide, representing another 16,000 people. The largest private prisons firm include GEO group, core civic, LaSalle corrections and management and training corporation.among states that use them, private - prisons hold the biggest share of state prisoners in Montana, about 50%. In Arizona, Hawwi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, between, 21% And 45% of the state prisoners are held In a fort profit prison. Though the overall share of Americans prisoners in private lock ups hasn't changed much since 2000, it is down significantly from its 2012 peak. A big driver of this in recent years in the federal bureau of prisons, which ended use of private prisons to hold federal prisoners under an executive orderd issued by president Joseph R, Biden jr, moving about 21,565 prisoners out of private lock ups since 2021