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4 pages in length. Women Hope House is a female facility that will house two hundred prisoners between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five years old. This target group was chosen for its malleability with regard to rehabilitating a criminal life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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criminal life. Women Hope House - a high-use facility - will be privately built and privately operated unlike the vast majority of correctional
facilities today. Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset exorbitant costs and prison overcrowding. The operation of correctional facilities by
the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopolitical climate favoring
the reduction of taxes and government size. Second was the implementation of "get-tough" social control policies, particularly the "war on drugs," and increasing mandatory prison sentences. These policies
resulted in an unprecedented increase in federal and state prison populations, which rose from 315,974 in 1980 to 883,656 in 1992, a 180% increase (Shichor et al, 1995). This
steep augmentation in inmate population growth resulted in major problems of prison crowding, which, in turn, resulted in putting about four fifths of the state under court order to reduce
the congestion (Marks, 1998). California has led the nation in implementing one of the harshest mandatory minimum sentence laws, where a number of public proprietary facilities have been utilized as
a means by which to house the additional inmates. Six of these facilities are in court with the California Department of Corrections to retain funds they claim are inherent
to such private facilities funds. What appears to have occurred is the process for contracting with public proprietary facilities in California was flawed from the outset. Being that
the experiment with public proprietary facilities in California had some problems has afforded many lessons for new facilities like Women Hope House when deciding between public and private proprietary operations.
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