Over 18 Months, Nation’s First Privately Owned State Prison Has Declined Rapidly

Over 18 Months, Nation’s First Privately Owned State Prison Has Declined Rapidly: pIn an unprecedented experiment fueled by budget concerns, Ohio sold a state prison to Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest private prison corporations in the country, in 2011. Within a year, a state audit of Lake Erie Correctional Institute, the nation’s first privately owned state prison, found rampant abuse and abysmal conditions well [...]/p