Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb

The entire concept of "for-profit incarceration/detention" should not exist. Such a system only incentivizes cruelty.

Deportations should be efficient and swiftly follow after apprehension. Delay only funnels public funds to companies such as these.

Always interesting to answer the question of who benefits from certain policies.

YoY Net Income from CoreCivic's own financials (2025-2022): 116.50, 68.87, 67.59, 122.32

Oligarchy! Sad!

It's intentionally misleading to use revenue in this headline.

People will read that headline and come away with the impression that private prisons are making billions. They're expenses are most likely scaling with their revenue.

If your concern is that private prisons exist or that detention is climbing, the dollar figure is secondary to other, better measures. Instead, revenue is (mis)used to give yhe impression that people are getting rich off of this and, while that may be true, the relevant number is the increase in income, not revenue.

In short, NPR isn't above clickbait that's biased towards their audiences.