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Prison Privatization

  • (New) Too Good to be True Private Prisons in America, [PDF] Sentencing Project. January, 2012. "Finally, private prison companies’ dependence on ensuring a large prison population to maintain profits provides inappropriate incentives to lobby government officials for policies that will place more people in prison."
  • Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. June, 2011. "While private prison companies may try to present themselves as just meeting existing "demand" for prison beds [...] they have worked hard over the past decade to create markets for their product."
  • FY 2010 Operating Per Capita Cost Report Cost Identification and Comparison of State and Private Contract Beds, [PDF] ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. April, 2011. "An inmate health care cost factor is identified and deducted due to the limitations imposed by the private contractors [...][because] unlike the private contractors, the ADC is required to provide medical and mental health services to inmates [...]."
  • Banking on Bondage Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration, [PDF] ACLU. 2011. (The evidence that private prisons provide savings compared to publicly operated facilities is highly questionable, and certain studies point to worse conditions in for-profit facilities.)
  • Department of Corrections-Prison Population Growth A Report to the Arizona Legislature, [PDF] State of Arizona Office of the Auditor General. September, 2010. "The State paid more per inmate in private prisons that for equivalent services in state facilities."
  • Corrections Department: Review of Facility Planning Efforts and Oversight of Private Prisons and Health Programs, [PDF] Legislative Finance Committee (New Mexico). May, 2007. "Nationally, New Mexico places the highest percentage, about 42-44 percent, of inmates in private prisons. The national average is 6.5 percent."
  • Department of Corrections: It Needs to Better Ensure Against Conflicts of Interest and to Improve Its Inmate Population Projections, [PDF] California State Auditor - Bureau of State Audits. September, 2005. (The report found conflict-of-interest problems in no-bid contracts for re-opening prisons. The decision to re-open the facilities, were in turn based on population calculations that were not made through statistically valid forecasting methods.)
  • Cost-Saving or Cost-Shifting: The Fiscal Impact of Prison Privatization in Arizona, [PDF] Private Corrections Institute. February, 2005.
  • Corrections Corporation of America: A Critical Look at the First 20 Years, Grassroots Leadership, [PDF] Grassroots Leadership. December, 2003. "explores continuing operational and financial problems; questions CCA's long-term viability as states reassess prison policies"
  • Private Prisons and Public Money Hidden Costs Borne by Colorado's Taxpayers, [PDF] Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. September, 2002.
  • A Contributing Influence: The Private-Prison Industry and Political Giving in the South, [PDF] Institute on Money in State Politics. April, 2002.
  • Weighing the Watchmen: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Outsourcing Correctional Services, Reason Public Policy Institute. January, 2002.
  • Private Prisons and the Use of Incarceration [PDF] Sentencing Project. January, 2002.
  • Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons, [PDF] Good Jobs First. October, 2001.
  • Selective Celling: Inmate Population in Ohio's Private Prisons, Policy Matters Ohio. May, 2001. (argues that prison cost savings are a myth by sending only low-cost prisoners to private prisons)
  • Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons Bureau of Justice Assistance. February, 2001. (A huge file, but far more readable in pdf format at: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/bja/181249.pdf)
  • The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics and Private Prisons in the Incarceration Boom, Western States Center and Western Prison Project. November, 2000.
  • Private Prisons, Politics & Profits National Institute on Money in State Politics. July, 2000.
  • Private Adult Correctional Facilities Fines, Failures and Dubious Practices, Ontario Public Service Employees Union. April, 2000.
  • The Private Prison Research Site [Website] Charles H. Logan, University of Connecticut. 2000. (Author: Private Prisons: Cons and Pros)
  • The evidence is clear: Crime Shouldn't Pay AFSCME Corrections United. 2000.
  • Inspection and Review of the Northeast Ohio Corr. Center Office of the Corrections Trustee, District of Columbia. November, 1998.
  • Private Prisons in the United States An Assessment of Current Practice, [PDF] Abt Associaties. July, 1998.
  • Should Crime Pay? A review of the evidence, AFSCME Corrections United. 1998.
  • Private and Public Prisons: Private and Public Prisons: Studies Comparing Operational Costs and/or Quality of Service, [PDF] General Accounting Office. August, 1996.
  • The Private Sector and Prison Industries [PDF] National Institute of Justice. August, 1985. "As of January 1985, there were 26 projects in which the private sector was involved with State-level prison industries. There has been a gradual growth [...] until 1980, when a marked increase occurred at a rate that continues to grow today."

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