I don't seem to be able to find figures showing the yearly growth of inmates in private prisons or of the number of inmates working for private companies in prisons either in the US or globally.
The best I have found is this about the 2004 situation re inmates in private prisons for this site. The site has reports on other countries as well.
http://www.psiru.org/justice/ppri70.htm#US
UNITED STATES 3.3% increase in private prisoners in 2004
The number of prisoners in private facilities in the US increased 3.3% during 2004, according to a new report from the US Department of Justice. There were 98,901 at year end 2004 compared with 95,707 at year end 2003. Overall, the nation’s prison population grew 1.9% which was less than the average annual growth of 3.2% since year end 1995.
At the end of 2004, 34 states and the Federal system reported 98,901 prisoners in privately operated facilities. Private facilities held 5.6% of all state prisoners and 13.7% of Federal prisoners. The largest private prison populations were Texas with 16,668 and Oklahoma with 5,905 held in private prisons. Six states had at least 25% of their prison population housed in private prisons, led by New Mexico (42%), Alaska (31%), Montana (30%), Wyoming and Hawaii (both 28%) and Oklahoma (25%). Some 8.1% of State prisoners in the South and 6.4% in the West were in privately run facilities, compared to 2% in the Northeast and 1.4% in the Midwest.
Since 2000, the number of Federal prisoners in private facilities has increased 60% while the number held in State facilities has decreased 1.3%. As a percentage of all prisoners under State and Federal jurisdiction, the number held in private facilities has remained stable at 6.6% compared with 6.5% for the years 2000-2003.
--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >While it is true that the percentage of private
> >prisons in the US is small I expect it is growing.
> How
> >rapidly I don't know. Perhaps someone else has the
> >figures.
>
>
> This is from the Sentencing Project in 2004:
>
> The spate of widely publicized problems at private
> correctional facilities has
> led to increased public scrutiny of the private
> prison business,
> contributing to the slowing growth
> of CCA and Wackenhut, as well as other smaller
> firms. Since 2000, no
> states have negotiated
> new private prison contracts, and several states
> have curtailed their
> relationship with the private
> prison industry. North Carolina, citing insufficient
> staff and
> mismanagement, canceled its two
> contracts with CCA and also passed legislation
> prohibiting the import
> of out-of-state inmates, as
> did Montana and California. In February 2001,
> Arkansas announced it
> was taking back
> operations of two of its prisons from Wackenhut. In
> response to these
> developments, neither
> CCA nor Wackenhut have emerged financially
> unscathed. CCA,
> especially, has taken a
> financial nose-dive, with its stock trading as low
> as 18 cents per
> share in December 2000
> compared to a high of $44 in 1998.18 Most recently,
> though, CCA
> shares have recovered to
> about $18 in early 2002, though this actually
> represented a value of
> $1.80 following a 1 to 10
> reverse stock split.
>
>
http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/inc_prisonprivatization.pdf
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