Private Prison

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The first think that all of the material regrading private prisons is the quality of the prison. Looking in to the quality of private prisons allows people to make the best laws and opinions in regards to private prisons. One why to judge the quality of a prison is by looking at the correction officers. The relationship between the Correction officers and the inmates is one way to look at correction officers. If there is a positive relationship this shows that the prison system is positive and most likely will result in less prisoners recommitting crimes. This allows correction officers to better interact with inmates causing there to be less inmate grievances. Thus, making the public prisons have higher quality in the area of correction …show more content…

Lots of works talk about how the private prisons have less qualified this improves and decreases the quality of the private prisons. This inexperience cause there to be an positive relationship between the inmates and the correction officers, but they don’t fully understand how to work with the prisoners causing some problems such as higher rates of recidivism. In the article, Durkheim, Punishment, and Prison Privatization the point is made that there is higher ratio of correction officers to inmates in public prisons then private prisons. This ratio affects the quality of private prisons because having to many prisoners compared to prisoners causes there to be security concerns and how effective the prison is. Another why one can judge the effectiveness of the private prisons is looking how much recidivism is happening. When looking in to this the article The Effects of Private Prison Confinement on Offender Recidivism points outs that the recidivism rates are higher in the private prisons then the in the public prisoners. One of the reasons of the reasons that the article The Effects of Private Prison Confinement on Offender Recidivism makes for the high rates of recidivism is that private prisons don’t have the right programs and services to help make the transition from prison to the everyday …show more content…

Frist off there is not evidences that the use of private prisons saves money. The use of private prisons dose have a positive impact in the state government staying in its budget. Private prisons help to lower some of the cost that the states have with prisons. If done correctly this could help the states to improve their economy. There are lots of ways that the private prisons try and same money. The article Durkheim, Punishment, and Prison Privatization shows some of the ways private prisons try and save money. The private prisons receive property tax abatements, tax rebates, and other benefits form the government. this helps the private prisons make money. When it comes to the employees of the of the private prisons the cheapest way is taken. On average the employees of the private prisons earn considerably less and have worse retirement packages their public counter parts. This has a negative effect on the economy because the workers aren’t going to be spending money because they don’t have any. The private prisons also look for the cheapest option when it comes to programs. This dose one or two things to the with the quality of the prison. The cheapest option can be to make sure that the prisoners do return to the prison. By focusing on this the quality of the prisons would be improved because people are not being rehabilitated. The insurance of prisoners becoming productive member

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