26 Aug 2016 Security, Public Safety, Fire & Safety Bids corrections facilities federal inmates government contracts bid requests inmate food service inmate phones inmate video visitation jails prisoner transport services prisons private prisons privately operated prisons RFPs How Has Federal Government Move to Private Prisons Led to Purchasing and Opportunity? In the United States today, the federal prison population is just south of 200,000 inmates. Over the past number of years, the federal government