3Qs: Why for-profit prisons are on the rise
Friday, July 15, 2016 - 06:21
in Biology & Nature
Private prisons are a particularly hot topic these days, the setting of the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black and the subject of a recent 35,000-word Mother Jones exposé, in which a reporter went undercover as a corrections officer at a Louisiana for-profit prison to shed light on the facility's harsh conditions.