dec 23, 1983 - Privatization of Prisons

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This is significant because the Correction Corporation of America was awarded a contract to take over a correctional facility and it was the first prison in the United States to be private owned. It is related to the mass incarceration of nonviolent criminals because due to the fact that prisons in the United States were over flown prisons began to open private facilities and private prisons due to private funding only take the low cost inmates.

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