A private company that runs the prison are legally allowed incarcerating individuals. It seems to benefit government because it takes the burden of the government hands and allowing the private company to run it. The purpose of private prison is that it has a substantially of lowering the cost or running the prison, in other words saving the government a lot of money. They have the resource to purchase the necessary items at the best price, unlike state-run prison is under strict contract. They have more ability to employ more workers and reducing the cost and overtime that may acquire since they are operating in an open free market. Consequently, private prison is all about money and profits, which means the most criminal that enter the prison, the more money the government will need to pay for the company to run the private prison, which is often considered a lucrative business. The downside of the private prison, they frequently need to be closely regulated and monitored by the government official, as the moral and ethical sense in this money making institution is getting out of hand and something need to be done in regulating it (Harding, 1997). For example, Serco a private company that runs New Zealand and Australia Prisons, in their Auckland branch, there was allegation of corruption, …show more content…
Justice reinvestment is about reinvesting money that is presently been invested on the operation and foundation of a growing prison system in more operative programs of control and preventing crime (Wong, 2004). It provides human service and resource that is consider beneficial that have been considerably impacted by the increase of prison: marginalised ethnic, struggling family and neighbourhoods.The second alternative is Target Service, helping high risk offender with their criminogenic needs which involve parole and probation, which is embracing human service, instead of the deterrence effect. Invisible punishment theory, fear of a criminal record, serving time in prison, wherever the effect separation from the community which makes and assumption of us vs them (Chinley, 2010). Monitoring measures and appropriate screening are put in place in diverting offenders that suffered from drug abused and other impairment, as least as harmless as sentencing and prosecution. In essence, in completing the treatment and rehabilitation successfully, like drug therapy, and reinvesting in the community like education, work experience will help decrease the rate of incarceration and recidivism (Irwin,