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Gen. Rob Bonta acknowledged that state and local oversight over detention facilities is limited, particularly after the state in 2019 attempted to ban private for-profit facilities, a bill Bonta was author of as a legislator.

Cash bail — the requirement that a person who has been arrested pay the court money in order to secure their own release while charges are pending — is a norm in the U.S., making us one of only two countries in the world with a for-profit bail industry.

Michael Itzkowitz, founder and president of HEA Group, said some of the issues in Los Angeles County region can be linked to the high number of private, for-profit schools — 62 out of 87 institutions in all — which typically cost much more than public colleges.

The commission designed the new monthly charge, which applies to customers of the state’s three largest for-profit electric companies, so that revenue increases from the new fees match the loss from the lower price per kilowatt hour.

After bankruptcy proceedings, Madera Community is now owned and operated by American Advanced Management, a for-profit company that has made a business out of rescuing distressed and shuttered hospitals.