entencing is the fact that the amount of time a prisoner spends in jail should depend upon the severity of his crime, his criminal history, and his/her responsiveness to rehabilitation or treatment provided (Johnson 1).
Determinate sentencing led, inevitably, to longer prison terms and prison overcrowding. However, it is privatization that has emerged as a major response to overcrowding of publicly managed prisons. A major shift in prison administration is the move made in many locales toward privatization - described by the Alabama Policy Institute (1) as a result of the dramatic increase in the number of individuals incarcerated over the last 20 years in the United States. Privatization has led to a debate over the relative merits and ethics of such a shift which transfers custody of state prisoners to private firms. The debate, as noted by the Alabama Policy Institute (2006), is focused on issues of quality, capacity management, rehabilitation, and custodial security as well as prisoner rights. Economic issues are also si
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