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6 pages in length. The debate over prison ownership and which entity - public or private - is best suited for the job revolves around the issues of money and control, a duality that often does not promote the best interests of the stakeholders involved, not the least of which includes taxpayers, local and state governments, as well as the inmates themselves. Looking at the benefits and detriments of each potential 'landlord' brings forth a number of concerns that both support and deny each one as being the best choice, however, there are growing indications of how prison privatization is on the horizon of forthcoming decisions to be made in the interest of economically effective and cooperative facilities. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that often does not promote the best interests of the stakeholders involved, not the least of which includes taxpayers, local and state governments, as well as the inmates themselves.
Looking at the benefits and detriments of each potential landlord brings forth a number of concerns that both support and deny each one as being the best choice, however, there
are growing indications of how prison privatization is on the horizon of forthcoming decisions to be made in the interest of economically effective and cooperative facilities (Bales et al, 2003).
Criminal justice policy makers face complex choices regarding how best to allocate available state revenues so as control the cost of institutional corrections without reducing the quality of correctional
service delivery (Greene, 2005). II. PRIVATE The primary goal of privatizing the prison system is to create a different path for a corrections system that now finds itself in
economic and recidivistic hot water (Nicholson-Crotty, 2004; Bales et al, 2003). Taxpayers no longer want to foot the bill to construct more and more facilities just to warehouse inmates
who will feed of the system for years. The proof of how the public approach to criminal justice is sorely lacking the wherewithal to actually decrease prison populations while
at the same time increase community safety is found in the way public facilities operate within the confines of funding limitations and insufficient alternative programs to reduce staggering overpopulation.
As such, Greene (2005) points out how private prisons seek to fine tune the floundering corrections system through four main components: 1. Cut the governments size and scope: It
is self-evident that this goal can be reached by shifting the correctional workforce from public operations to the private sector. 2. Cut red tape: Private firms will clearly speed up
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