Focusing on the exploitation that exists in the private prison system, I searched vigorously for raw data from sources such as the Bureau of Prisons to the Vera Institute of Justice. While the process of creating such content was daunting, especially because private prison corporations and the Bureau of Prisons are not required to provide detailed or relevant data, I set out to prove that private prisons do not economically benefit the United States. Using such data and visualization program Tableau, I created easily digestible graphs comparing the costs and quality of life of inmates in public (BOP) prisons to those run by huge corporations like CoreCivic and GEO Group. Finally, I wrote and presented a research article arguing that due to the exploitation of inmates in privatized prisons, the private prison system does not fiscally benefit the United States in the long run, but instead perpetuates a vicious cycle in which contract prisoners return to prison more often than not, acting as dehumanized passive forms of income for corporations.