Population Problems With Prisons For Profit Read a CBS MarketWatch story about Wackenhut from May 1999. One Inmate Says She Was Raped Repeatedly 2000 CBS Dale Ortego says that he shredded complaints at one Wackenhut juvenile facility. They thought she was going to a new kind of juvenile detention facility - a private prison offering counseling that could turn her life around.
Many parents cling to the hope of rehabilitation.
Wackenhut says it can run the prisons for less money than a state can - and provide better rehabilitation. But for Wackenhut, running prisons for profit has sometimes turned out to be much more difficult and dangerous than promised. There were great hopes for Sara and other kids, when they were sent away. But no one knew what they were really experiencing. Scott Pelley reports.