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New Jersey Monitor
March 20, 2026

NJ lawmakers eye new taxes for private prisons that critics call ‘plainly illegal’
By Nikita Biryukov


Together, the two private facilities in New Jersey averaged a little more than 1,200 detainees last month, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research organization focused on gathering public records. At those levels, the fee could bring in more than $500,000 per month.


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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