The US Criminal Justice System directly impacts 6.6 million people costing more than $80 billion annually. Racial disparities, extractive business practices, and misaligned incentives mar this profoundly broken system. More than 4,000 corporations profit from mass incarceration through predatory pricing, prison labor, and the private prison industry, according to research conducted by the Prison Policy Initiative. But the opportunity exists to find highly innovative private sector business models that address the injustices of mass incarceration, poised for the ethical disruption of the Criminal Justice System.
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