CNBC's BILLIONS BEHIND BARS To Premiere 10/18
By: Caryn Robbins Oct. 14, 2011
CNBC'S BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY Will Premiere Tuesday, October 18th (ALL TIMES IN ET)
Tuesday, 10/18/2011:
9:00 PM BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY
10:00 PM BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY
12:00 AM BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY
1:00 AM BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY
Friday, 10/21/2011:
8:00 PM BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY
Sunday, 10/23/2011:
10:00 PM BILLIONS BEHIND BARS: INSIDE AMERICA'S PRISON INDUSTRY
"Billions Behind Bars: Inside America's Prison Industry," a CNBC original documentary, goes behind the razor wires to investigate the profits and inner-workings of the multi-billion dollar corrections industry.
With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars, while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. This has created a thriving prison economy: the states and the federal government together spend roughly $74 billion a year on corrections, and nearly 800,000 people work in the industry.
From some of the poorest towns in America to some of the wealthiest investment firms on Wall Street, CNBC's Scott Cohn travels the country to go inside the big and controversial business of prisons. He investigates a private prison in Idaho, dubbed a "gladiator school" by inmates and former prison employees who cite its high level of violence. He also chronicles what happens when a hard hit town in Montana accepts an appealing sales pitch from a private prison developer. In Colorado, we profile a little-known workforce behind bars, and discover that many products created by prison labor have seeped into our everyday lives -- even some of the food we eat. We also meet a tough-talking judge in the law-and-order state of Texas who's actually trying to keep offenders out of prison and save taxpayer money, through an innovative and apparently successful program.
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