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It should be noted that this is a year old news.

And that only 3% of our prison population is in private prisons.

That's 68,000 people. A lot of people.

It's more. Corrections Corporation of America alone has "90,000 offenders and detainees"[1]

It was 8.0% in 2010 according to http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p10.pdf appendix table 19. Tendency increasing.