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As governments faced the problems created by burgeoning prison populations in the late 20th century—including overcrowding, poor sanitation, and riots—a few sought a solution in turning over prison management to the private sector. Privately run prisons were in operation in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States by the late 1990s. In the following decade a number of countries, including Brazil, France, and South Africa, hired private contractors to build prisons and to manage some of their day-to-day operations. The term prison privatization can be applied to a variety of arrangements involving nongovernmental contractors. One privatization model, which originated ...(100 of 4687 words)