According to information in your textbook, many communities, desperate for economic development, offered to help fund private-prison companies through tax breaks, infrastructure subsidies, and other benefits. Research has shown that taxpayers subsidized 78% of Corrections Corporation of America's and 69% of Wackenhut's (now GEO's) prisons.

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Many communities, in their quest for economic development, have indeed offered various forms of financial assistance to private prison companies, such as tax breaks and infrastructure subsidies. This support has resulted in a significant portion of the costs associated with private prisons, like those operated by Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic) and Wackenhut (now GEO Group), being subsidized by taxpayers.

According to Information in Your Textbook, Many Communities, Desperate for Economic