Prison Bed Profiteers: How Corporations Are Reshaping Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
May. 21, 2012
ANNOTATION: This report examines the benefits of private prisons and finds them seriously lacking in empirical support. Sections of this report include: overview; an introduction to private prisons in the U.S.; private prison performance—a discussion of the key claims made by private prison proponents; the profit motive—conflict of interest I real terms; contracting, oversight, and monitoring; other forms of corrections privatization; recommendations for responding to the expansion of private prisons; and conclusion. “Proponents’ claims that private prisons can provide higher-quality and more cost-effective service provisions, improved conditions of confinement, and economic growth in the communities where new facilities are built are neither borne out in research, nor seen in the scores of private facility incident reports across the country. The expectation that competition for contracts among free market players would lead to generally improved efficiency, quality, and cost savings has not been met” (p. 4).
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