Prison Privatization

This article represents the authors’ findings of a meta-analysis of 33 cost-effectiveness evaluations of private and public prisons culled from two dozen independent studies. The authors’ thesis is that private prisons are no more cost-effective than public prisons. Rather, the authors argue in favor of other factors as having an impact on a prison’s daily per diem cost, such as the facility’s economy of scale, age, and security-level (Pratt and Maahs 358).

The argument behind the momentum toward prison privatization stems from the overriding misperception that privatization of prisons will be more cost-effective than public prisons. Pratt and Maahs (359) contend that policy-makers have been forced to examine prison privatization based on two facts about the contemporary public prison system: 1) the perception of the deterio

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Approximate Word count = 1036
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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