What is Private prison?
A '''private prison''' is a [[prison]] run by a [[private company]] instead of the [[government]]. The government hires the [[private prison company]] to perform all the services needed to keep the [[convicts]] locked up while they serve out their sentences. In the [[21st century|twenty-first century]], many [[industries]] that were government-run before have become more [[privatization|privatized]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bobbitt|first=Philip|title=Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century|url=https://archive.org/details/terrorconsentwar0000bobb|year=2008|publisher=AA Knopf|isbn=978-1-4000-4243-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/terrorconsentwar0000bobb/page/89 89]-90}}</ref> The countries that have private prisons are [[Australia]], [[Brazil]], [[Chile]], [[Greece]], [[Jamaica]], [[Japan]], [[Mexico]], [[New Zealand]], [[Peru]], [[South Africa]], [[South Korea]], [[Thailand]], [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. Private prisons are only common in the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web|title=More Countries Turn to Faltering U.S. Prison Privatisation Model|publisher=[[Inter Press Service]]|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/more-countries-turn-to-faltering-u-s-prison-privatisation-model/|date=Aug 20, 2013|author=Carey L. Biron|access-date=March 31, 2019}}</ref> Israel used to have private prisons, until the Israeli [[Supreme Court]], declared them [[illegal]] (against the [[law]]) in 2005. [[Canada]] also used to have private prisons, but due to widespread [[protest]]s against them, the last private prison went to government control in 2006. Reasons why some governments allow private prisons are: *It may save [[money]]. *Private prisons may come up with new ideas on how to run prisons better. *If a prison is poorly run, someone new can run it. However, many people do not like the idea of private prisons. The main reasons for this are: *The company may spend less on caring for the prisons so they can keep more money for themselve