The study examined the rationale and the emergence of privately managed prisons in the United States. The analyses measured the extent to which privately operated prisons solves the problem of crowded prisons and state’s ability to reduce expenditure without undermining inmate’s welfare and rights. The study considered the case of Texas prisons. Texas being a state with the second largest prison system in the U.S.A. was ideal for analysis. Recent growth in the size of Texas' prison system has been increasingly costly and beyond the capacity of Texas department of criminal justice. The paper analyzed the extent to which private contractors were more efficient and their ability to secure private funds to construct more prisons than state governments. The paper also tested the notion of privatized organization’s capacity to save taxpayers money by introducing new management techniques and flexible employment policies.

1. Emanuel Baisire
Case Study: Privatization as a cutting cost tool in state prisons:

2. Abstract:
The study examined the rationale and the emergence of privately managed prisons in the
United States. The analyses measured the extent to which privately operated prisons
solves the problem of crowded prisons and state’s ability to reduce expenditure without
undermining inmate’s welfare and rights. The study considered the case of Texas prisons.
Texas being a state with the second largest prison system in the U.S.A. was ideal for
analysis. Recent growth in the size of Texas' prison system has been increasingly costly
and beyond the capacity of Texas department of criminal justice. The paper analyzed the
extent to which private contractors were more efficient and their ability to secure private
funds to construct more prisons than state governments. The paper also tested the notion
of privatized organization’s capacity to save taxpayers money by introducing new
management techniques and flexible employment policies.
Case Study: Privatization as a cutting cost tool in state prisons:
Introduction:
There is a continuing debate about the need for privatization of state owned institutions.
Politicians, academicians and economists have tried to provide a case that instills market
forces in the way government operations are handled. There has always been a
disagreement on the extent to which delivery of public services should be placed under
the control of private sector. Opponents of privatization have often argued that private
sector firms are simply motivated by profits and are mostly likely to compromise the
well-being of the public in to enrich themselves. On the other side, supporters of
privatization have long argued that private sector firms both operate cheaply and with an
elevated level of sophistication and higher performance.
It is argued that innovation and market pressures enable private sector firms to seek
alternatives that translate into cheaper and better services compared to the public sector
which has no motivation to change in the way they deliver services to the public. In the
analysis, I attempted to argue the case for the two diverging views to understand why
traditional government responsibilities like public safety, correctional services, schools,
waste management etc are being transferred under the management of private sector
firms. Special attention is focus on the privatization process of correction services in the
state of Texas. The state was motivated to pursue privatization of correctional facilities in
the attempt to reduce costs and provide better services to the prison population.
The analyses measured the extent to which privately operated prisons solves the problem
of crowded prisons and state’s ability to reduce expenditure without undermining
inmate’s welfare and rights. The study considered the case of Texas prisons. Texas being
a state with the second largest prison system in the U.S.A. was ideal for analysis. Recent
growth in the size of Texas' prison system has been increasingly costly and beyond the
capacity of Texas department of criminal justice. According to Criminal Justice policy,
Texas has an annual correction budget of $ 2.4 billion (2004) and 98% of its prison space
is occupied.
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3. Faced with budget shortfalls and limited prison space, Texas considered privatization of
prisons as an alternative to raise funds to build new prison facilities and increase
efficiency. In this context, privatization will refer to the transfer of public responsibility
to manage or operate correction facilities to private contractors (Sclar, 2000). The paper
analyzed the extent to which private contractors were more efficient and their ability to
secure private funds to construct more prisons than state governments. The paper also
tested the notion of privatized organization’s capacity to save taxpayers money by
introducing new management techniques and flexible employment policies. Private sector
argument to provide better management practices than public facilities.
The paper also discusses financial implications of each program to the state government.
In order to fully understand the extent of savings associated with privatization, the paper
compared the cost-benefit analysis of publicly managed correction facilities against
privately managed facilities in Texas.
Literature Review:
Privatization can be referred to as the process by which government transfers its assets
and function to the private sector. Privatization can be in form of complete or partial
divestiture of a state-owned enterprise to the hands of private management1. According to
Sozzani (2003), Privatization can either be a temporal or permanent transfer of ownership
or management of a government entity to the private sector. Due to managerial
efficiency, virtually every public service is threatened by privatization2. According to
Sclar (2005), public service institutions like schools, public hospitals, social services,
correctional facilities, police and fire department and mass transit system stand a chance
of being privatized if politician believe there are not meeting set objectives. Privatization
advocates believe that government should spend more time governing and less time
delivering service and producing goods3. According to Sozzani (2003), the following are
the mostly used types of Privatization:
1. Trade Sales: This involves partial or full sale of a public owned enterprise. The
commonly used methods of trade sales are competitive bidding, negotiated sales,
Management/Employee Buyouts (MEBO) and placement with preferred investor
groups.
2. Outsourcing: This allows private sector organizations to provide a needed services
within a government owned institution. A Public sector entity enters into an
1
Sozzani, “Privatization in the United States and Australia” (2003) P.141.
2
Sclar, , L. (2000). You Don’t Always Get What You Pay: Economics of Privatization.
Ithaca Newyork: Cornell University Press.
3
Logan, C. (1991). Well Kept: Comparing Confinement in Private and Public
Prisons.The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 83(3) 577-613.
2

4. agreement with a private sector business to provide it with a service at a
competitive price. This is the commonly used method of privatization in the
correction services.
3. Management Contracts: The parties enter into a contract where management and
operation of the organization is taken over by the private sector. Private
management contractor manages the organization on behalf of the public.
4. Public-Private Competition: This form of privatization is aimed at exerting
pressure on public organization to compete with the private sector in service
delivery. It allows private firms to compete with public organizations in providing
services to the public. This method is commonly referred to as market testing.
Government uses it to test the efficiency of the market in providing a particular
public service.
5. Build-Operate-Transfer Arrangements (BOT): This form of privatization is often
referred to as a private infrastructure development and operation contract. It
allows the private sector to enter into a contact with a public organization to
provide finance for constructing a facility and operating it for a given period of
time. At the expiry of the agreed period, private entity transfers ownership and
operation of the facility to the public organization.
6. Build –Own-Operate Arrangement (BOO): In this case, a private sector company
is responsible for building and operating a public facility while maintaining full
ownership of the otherwise government mandated operations. The contractual
obligations mandate the government to guarantee business to the private sector
entity.
The evolution and scope of private prisons in the United States dates back to the
eighteenth century to those infamous prisons where private contractors worked inmates to
death 4. The Percy Amendment of 1979 legalized private prisons and was a cornerstone
for the renewal of private prisons in the United States5. The emergence of modern private
prisons in the United States was revitalized by the U.S. Immigration Services decision to
detain illegal immigrants in private detention facilities managed by Corrections
Corporation of America6. Due to the need for more beds to house illegal immigrants, U.S.
Immigration Services decided to contract private firms to design, construct and manage
detention facilities. The rationale to their decision was that it was easy and quick to use
allocated funds for detention operations instead of waiting for years for budget allocation
to build new detention facilities.
Texas became the first state to privatize its prison facilities. Currently, there are over 158
private correction facilities in 35 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. The
momentum to privatize correction facilities in the United States is attributed to increased
4
S Borna, “ Free Enterprise Goes To Prison” (1986) 26 (4) British Journal of Criminology 326
Miller & Jensen, “Reform of Federal Prison Industries” (1974) 1(1) Justice System Journal, 1-27
6
McFarland e.t. all, “Prison, Privatization and Public Values” (2002) P.2
5
3

5. growth in prison population and the Reagan era of free- market solution to government
inefficiency7. According to the Bureau of Justice (2005), the total United State’s inmate’s
population dropped is estimated at 2.26 million persons of which 101, 228 are confined in
privately managed prisons. The rationale to privatize public prisons is attributed to
political ideologies and a shift towards market forces. Proponents of prison privatization
argue that private prisons operate more cheaply and with quality performance compared
to public prisons (Camp, 2005). Proponents of privatization of state prison argue that the
markets are more efficient in the delivery of service than public agencies. The claim is
based on the following assumptions:
Managers in private sector firms are not faced with “ red tape” and are able to
procure needed goods and services much faster than public agencies;
Private firms have the flexibility to allocate human resources by recruiting
capable staff and firing without worrying about organized labor unions and
government staffing regulations;
Private sector managers are keen about financial risks than public managers
which makes them to pay more attention to costs and better service delivery;
Competition in the private sector provides the incentives for cost effectiveness
and profit maximization8.
According to Segal and More (2002), privatization of correctional facilities results into
significant cost reduction. However, critics argue that comparing cost of private and
public correctional facilities might be problematic due to different accounting and cost
analysis procedures. According to Camp (2005), proponents of privatization have failed
to indicate the mechanisms to which private prisons are presumed cheaper and well
managed. The debate to privatize is mainly focused on cost saving. Studies on
privatization indicate a mixed reaction about cost savings to the public. Private firms
build prisons more cheaply and operate efficiently due to their flexibility to procure
needed resources without adhering to strict purchasing requirements applicable to state
agencies.
It is also argued that private prisons have been able to fulfill their promise to provide
cost savings of 10-15% to state governments in Texas, Tennessee, California and
Florida9. According to More (2002) states with private prisons saved more than 9 % of
their correction budget compared to states without privatized prisons. However, other
studies have challenged the basis of privatized prison’s ability to realize significant cost
savings to the public. Cost saving comparison in private and public correction facilities is
7
Ibid.
McDonald et.al, (1998). Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practices. ABT
Study, 40-42..
9
Segal and More, (2002). Weighing the watchmen: Evaluating the cost and benefit of outsourcing
correctional services. Policy Study .290.p.6.
8
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6. not realistic due to significant differences in both systems. For example state prisons may
not have the same kind of inmates like those housed in private prisons i.e. .high risk
inmates vs. low risk inmates. Custody needs of high risky inmates in state prisons is
different from those housed in private prisons, medical needs and other social programs
make state prisons to appear more expensive than privately run prisons.10
According to the General Accounting office, there is no conclusive and scientific
evidence to suggest that private prisons have a unique edge in the general operations of
their facilities compared to publicly managed prisons. According to the study
commissioned by the Urban Institute (1989), to compare private prisons and public
prisons in Kentucky and Massachusetts, found that there were no differences in operation
efficiency of both systems. It is also argued that it is hard to compute prison costs due to
differences in correctional systems and the diverse background of inmate population.
Sclar (2000), asserts that it is too complicated to determine the difference between site –
specific and system wide costs. He states that it is “impossible to say with any degree of
certainty if the privatization of corrections produces substantial cost saving” (P.7).
Despite criticism labeled against privatization of state prisons, most governments are
convinced that privatization is the most efficient way to deliver public services11. Private
sector entities are cost conscious and profit motivated thus motivated to apply modern
business practices to minimize costs.
However, despite the general mood to save costs, there is often other reason why a state
government decides to privatize its correction facilities. According to the Abt Associates
study (1997), most states privatized public prisons in an attempt to reduce overcrowding
in correction facilities, the need to acquire new beds faster than dealing with cumbersome
state’s procurement procedures, gain operational flexibility, operational cost savings,
construction cost savings and improving caliber of services in state correction system.
The most cited reason to privatize is cost savings. However, due to differences in
budgeting and accounting procedures in the public and private organizations, it is
difficult to make accurate cost comparison. Unlike private accounting systems, public
accounting methods are not aimed at identifying costs but rather control misuse of public
funds.12
Private sector’s accounting systems tend to spread expenditures for capital assets for the
entire “useful life” of the business and the cost is reflected on a year to year basis while in
the public sector capital expenditure is reflected on that specific year the project was
undertaken. This explains why public sector costs may seem higher in the fiscal year a
project was undertaken compared to the private sector costs that are spread annually.
10
GAO. (1997). Privatization: Lessons learned by States and Local Governments.
Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.
11
Ibid
Herman B. Leonard, Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending (New York, NY: Basic
Books, 1986)
12
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7. It is also common for private prison’s contractor not to incur all the cost related to
housing inmates even when the facility belongs to them. According to a survey by the
Bureau of Justice (1998), public officials responsible for overseeing contracts with
privately contracted facilities acknowledged that some private facilities transferred their
costs to the government. According to the author, the most common activities paid for by
the government and not indicated in the cost analysis of private prisons include:
1. Contract monitoring and oversight: The cost to monitor private prisons is often
transferred to the public correctional sector and it is not recorded as a cost to the
private sector facility
2. Inspection and licensing: Before a private prison is commissioned by the state to
house inmates, it has to undergo a series of inspection and certification to meet
state and federal requirements. These associated costs are reflected in the public
correctional institutions budget making their operations more expensive than
private institutions.
3. Personnel training: Training of warden in private prisons is sometimes undertaken
by public sector to ensure the safety of inmates and the public
4. Medical and Dental care: Private contractors often limit their obligation for
inmate’s medical care to avoid costs.
5. Inmate transportation: In some private sector facilities, their responsibility in to
only house inmates and it is state responsibility to transport inmates to attend their
Court hearings
6. Inmate case management: Due to vast experience of public correction facilities,
counseling services of inmates is state responsibility and the private prisons do
not incur costs related to providing such social services.
7. Background checks for visitors and volunteers
8. Correctional industries programming
9. Disciplinary and grievance processes
10. Response teams for emergencies: In case of prison riots and other emergencies,
most states retain the responsibility to react to such situations.
It is therefore necessary for public correction agencies to examine all these elements
and making sure that such costs are considered as contracting costs to the government
and should not be reflected as operation costs. According to the National Institute of
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8. Corrections, a great percentage of reported cost savings at privately managed prisons
is attributed to differences in per-inmate medical expenditures and state overhead
costs. U.S. General Accounting Office (1996), some studies reflect that private
prisons tend to be cheaper but when in reality medical and health costs of inmates are
not computed in the cost analysis.
Framework for cost comparisons in public agencies:
In order harmonize privatization in the correctional services; the Department of
Justice requires all state governments to adhere with cost comparison procedures as
prescribed in the Officer of Management and Budget’s Circular A-76.13 The circular
was designed in 1966 and revised twice in 1983 by President Reagan and in 2003 by
the Bush Administration. Circular A-76 establishes federal policy for the competition
of commercial activities. The general guidelines of A-76 circular involve six main
elements:
1. Developing a performance work statement and quality assurance surveillance
plan. These are generally initiated by the concerned government agency;
2. A management study to determine the government’s Most Efficient
Organization (MOE) for delivering the service directly. The exercise leads to
the development of a management plan showing how a government agency is
capable of providing the service instead of contracting to private sector firms.
It identifies the structure of the organization, staffing and operational
procedures to guarantee that the in-house activity is done cost effectively;
3. Estimating the cost of government delivering the service by means of this
Most Efficient Organization (MOE). It takes into account the cost related to
the performance of the MOE;
4. Review and Certification: The circular requires and independent review of the
agency by an independent government agency to determine the accuracy of
cost evaluation and to justify that all calculations were conducted in
accordance to stipulated rules and regulations;
5. Issuing a request for proposal or invitation for bids;
6. Comparing the estimated cost of direct government provision with bidder’s
proposed price
Finally, when all these requirements are fulfilled, an administrative appeal process is
initiated. The goal is to ensure that all projected costs and value are conducted fairly,
13
Bureau of Justice Assistance. (2001). Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Program.
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9. accurately and calculations based on outlined guidelines of Circular A-76.14 State
officials are faced with a challenge to determine the benefits of their decisions compared
to the costs of investing in a particular program. To overcome this challenge, State
officials can apply the Benefit-Cost analysis. Benefit-Cost Analysis is an economic
analysis that put into account all relevant benefits of a proposed or existing program in
comparison to all relevant costs in dollar terms15. The analysis is important because it
allows policy-makers to determine whether investing in a particular project is the most
effective allocation of government resources.
According to Lawrence and Mears (2006), policy-makers should adhere to the following
steps in formulating a Benefit-Cost analysis of any program; clearly state the question
under consideration, determine the perspective, identify benefits and costs, assign values
to benefit and cost items, compare total benefits and total costs, address issues of
uncertainty using sensitive analysis, incorporate a time dimension and discounting into
the analysis and articulate the limitations of the methodology and the analysis 16. The
main purpose of conducting a benefit –cost analysis is to assist public officials reach a
decision of whether to fund a particular program, stop funding an existing program or
revise the current program to meet its initial objective. Benefit-Cost analysis measures
the net difference between benefits and costs (total benefits minus total costs) and the
benefit-cost ration (total benefits divided by total costs). When the total difference is
positive then the benefits are greater than total costs and if benefit cost ratio is greater
than 1.0, the program is cost-beneficial and the reverse is the same when the cost-benefit
is less than 1.0 then the costs are greater than benefits.
Discussions and Results:
The analysis measured the extent to which privately operated prisons solved the problem
of crowded prisons in Texas and their ability to protect constitutional rights of inmates.
Texas has the second largest prison system in the U.S.A with a population of 654,232
supervised by Texas criminal justice system (Texas Department of Justice, 2004).
However, only 151,553 are serving time in prisons and the rest are either under parole or
probation. 1 out of 20 Texas adults population is either in prison, jail or under probation.
Critics believe TDJ figures are underestimated, according to the Justice Policy Institute
(2003), there are more people under Texas criminal justice system (740,905) than state
population of Vermont (619,000), or the City of Austin (656,562). Recent growth in the
size of Texas' prison system has been increasingly costly and beyond the capacity of
Texas department of criminal justice. According to Criminal Justice policy, Texas has an
annual correction budget of $ 2.4 billion (2004) and 98% of its prison space is occupied.
Faced with budget shortfalls and limited prison space, Texas considered privatization of
prisons as an alternative to raise funds to build new prison facilities and increase
efficiency. In this context, privatization will refer to the transfer of public responsibility
14
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15
Lawrence and Mears. (2006). Benefit-Cost Analysis of Supermax Prisons: Critical
steps and Considerations. Washington, DC: Department of Justice.
16
Ibid
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10. to manage or operate correction facilities to private contractors (Sclar, 2000). In 1987,
Texas legislative body mandated the Texas department of justice to contract with private
business organizations to construct, finance, operate and manage prison facilities (Texas
Sunset Advisory Commission, 1991).Texas Department of Justice was authorized to
contract with private vendors to construct or operate correctional facilities as long as the
vendors provided a 10% saving or more than a state managed facility. This law attracted
several private correction companies to bid for contracts to manage or operate prison
facilities. Among the major private correction firms operating in Texas are Correction
Corporation of America, Wackenhut and Pricor. Texas has the most privatized correction
facilities in U.S. (43 facilities) with the capacity of 22, 000 beds (U.S. Department of
Justice, 2001).
Supporters of privatization in Texas argued that private contractors are more efficient and
have access to financial resources to construct more prisons than state government. A
case in point, Correction Corporation of America was able to construct a 350- bed facility
in Houston, TX, for a period of 5 month at a cost and time half than what had been
planned for by the government (U.S. Department of Justice, 2001). According to
Kicenski (2002), contracting enable private firms to construct prisons much faster due to
their flexibility and ease to mobilize capital and technology. Thus, private prisons are free
from bureaucratic constraints that would otherwise undermine their efficiency and
motivation (Gormley & Balla, 2004).
Private prisons operate with no “red tape”, thus providing private companies with an edge
to deploy their work force more productively. Private operators were more likely to
achieve efficiency by introducing new management techniques or restructuring nonperforming departments.
Privately managed prisons in Texas were capable of saving taxpayer’s money through
reduced labor cost. Labor costs were minimized by reducing: (1) number of staff, (2)
Wages, (3) Fringe benefits (U.S. Department of Justice, 2001). Flexible employment
policies allowed private vendors to hire, fire, set salaries depending on the prevailing
needs unlike public agencies where it was difficult to make significant changes
(Kicenski, 2002). The private sector prisons succeeded in developing a better working
culture amongst staff which resulted into better prison management.
Privatization increases accountability and competition in Texas correctional facilities.
Texas department of correctional services had to devise monitoring guidelines to ensure
that privately contracted prisons provided sufficient and quality services to inmates
(McDonald, 1994).
It is also argued that market mechanism through competition forced private vendors to
become innovative and were motivated to provide superior services for fear of losing
their contract to competitors. It is believed that competition encouraged private
contractors to monitor themselves, adding more control mechanism.
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11. Graphic presentation associated with the costs of constructing and maintaining a
prison facility:
Land
Facility utilities: water,
electricity, and
telephone services
Security Operating costs
such as alarm systems and
surveillance camera
Construction: Including
labor & supplies
Personnel, including
hiring, training, salaries
and benefits
Food for prisoners and
medical costs
However, critics of private prisons in Texas challenged the competence of private firms
in managing the prison industry. Opponents of privatizing Texas state prisons argued that
it was the responsibility of state officials to manage state prison and that there was no
strong basis for the facilities to be transferred to private sector firms. Critics of privatized
prisons argued that private firms tend to compromise services in the attempt to saving
costs. Their argument was based on the following reasons:
1- Cost savings advocated for by private prisons undermined the quality of services
provided to inmates. Private prisons attempted to minimize labor cost by offering
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12. Benefits
Measurement
Number of Units Estimated Costs
lower wages and limited fringe benefits which resulted to the hiring of
inexperienced guards;
2- It was common for private prisons to apply a “Low –balling” technique to win
government contracts. Low-balling technique is commonly used by private
contractors to enable them win government contracts. It is a method in which a
low bid is forwarded to win a first contract and losses are later recovered by
inflating subsequent contracts;
3- Another argument along these lines is that private operators exploited inmate
labor, in terms of wages and working conditions which resulted into infamous
prison riots in the early 1990’s;
4- Private operators were more likely to enforce decisions that favored lengthy stay
of inmates to maximize company profit .Critics claimed that contracting reduced
accountability. Privately managed prison facilities weakened public control of
correctional facilities. Private operators turned into monopoly and developed a
strong lobbying group in Texas local politics. Private prison’s lobbyist influenced
state politicians and advocated for lengthy inmate sentences and highimprisonment policies.
The table on the next page indicates Possible Benefit and Cost Measurement in the
prison system:
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13. Reduced violence
among prisoners
150
$ 1, 200 per assault
50
$ 1200 per assault
40
$ 2,500 per hospitalization
200
$ 500 per grievance
Number of reported violent
incidents among prisoners in
one year
Reduced violence
between prisoners
and correctional
officers
Number of reported violent
incidents between prisoners
and staff in one year
Fewer violent
incidents that require
medical attention
Number of hospitalization in
one year
Less stress living
conditions for the
general population
Number of prisoner grievances
filled in one year
Less stressful
working conditions for Number of sick leave days and
personal days used by officers
the correctional staff
280
$ 800 per day
TOTAL BENEFITS: 640,000
Source: Texas Department of Justice
In summary, the total benefits of upgrading an existing prison facility to house inmates
Associated Costs
Measurement
Construction to
upgrade an existing
building, including
labor and materials
Total construction-related to
upgrade costs
Purchasing and
installing surveillance
and control
technologies
Number of Units
Estimated Costs
Total purchase and installation
costs
$ 1,000,000
$ 25,000
Correctional office
training
Average hourly wage
Correctional officers
salaries and benefits
Average Hourly wage
80
$ 20 per hour
80
$ 30 per hour
Monthly Utility
expenses
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$ 4000 per month
Monthly electric, heat and
TOTAL COSTS: $ 886, 600
water bills
in the Texas correctional system is estimated at $ 640, 000 and the total costs associated
with it is estimated at $ 886, 000. Therefore, net (benefit-cost) is $ 246, 000 and the ratio
(benefits divided by costs) is 0.72
Conclusion:
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14. For above reasons it may be concluded that it is not in the interest of the public to entrust
the management of prisons to private operators who rather than being motivated to
administer justice or serve the public interest, are motivated solely to make profits.
Several studies have failed to show any evidence linking significant cost savings to the
public by contracting state correction facilities to private prison providers. It is argued
that privately operated prisons are driven by financial incentives and are responsible for
cutting back on inmate’s medical service and rehabilitation programs. Finally, it is the
constitutional obligation for State governments to provide public safety and preserve
constitution rights of inmates.
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