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I think you need to check your data sources.

> "Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 115,428 people in 2019, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 32% compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 3%."

https://nicic.gov/private-prisons-united-states-2021



So a single order of magnitude larger




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