In Canada, such privately run for-profit facilities also exist, but they must compete with government-funded public facilities run by each province's or territory's Ministry of Health.

Leben Home, a for-profit facility with about 360 mentally ill residents, remains open, despite a decades-old history of unsanitary conditions, state sanctions and even macabre incidents.

This is most apparent in Louisiana, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world and houses the majority of its inmates in for-profit facilities.

The Federation of American Hospitals, which represents investor-owned hospitals, wants to redefine "private nonprofit facility" to include "private for-profit medical facilities."

In 2010 Gaza experienced a boom in the construction of for-profit recreational facilities aimed not at tourists but at residents, including the many employees of international aid organizations.

What disparagingly is called "shooting galleries" have existed for a long time; there were illicit for-profit facilities in New York during 1980s and in Sydney during the 1990s.

Louisiana, for example, has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities.

It is Mobile's only for-profit facility.

Two-thirds of America's nursing homes are for-profit facilities owned by private investors.

In 2010 Gaza experienced a building boom in the construction of for-profit recreational facilities, Some of the new amusement parks and restaurants are Hamas business ventures.