Prison for Profit
What happens when governmental and intricate care-tasks like detention and rehabilitation are left to market forces and powerful international uncontrolled corporations take over?
We follow journalist Ruth Hopkins and the lives of former prisoners and warders from South Africa’s Mangaung private prison, which is run by the controversial private security firm G4S, a worldwide British multi-billion company. Leaked video-footage filmed by guards shows the true face of this notorious prison from the inside. PRISON FOR PROFIT exposes how this profit-maximization system works, how G4S operates this prison and what the far-reaching negative consequences are for society.
Ilse & Femke van Velzen, Netherlands, 2019, 83 min. English & Afrikaans spoken, Dutch subtitles.