The Pros And Cons Of Private Prisons

For-profit prison are believed to have started in Amsterdam and Hamburg in seventeenth century. These prisons profited by charging a fee for admittance, discharge, food, water, and lodging. In 1825 the state of Kentucky was having financial issues, so Joel Scott paid the state one thousand dollars to open a two hundred and fifty bed facility. Twenty-six years later California had an influx of crime and could not manage so they leased their prisons to two businesses for ten years. Fast forward to the twenty centuries and the state of Oklahoma inmates built McAlester prison, which included an industrial factory and a farm. By 1990’s thirteen states had privatized some portion of their penal system. In 2004 thirty-four states outsourced a section of their penal system. There are only two states that have not …show more content…
Hillary Clinton publicly stated that “we should end for-profit prisons” after president trump decide to use private prisons again(surowiecki,2016). The Department of Justice said that private prisons were less safe and less secure than government run-ones(surowiecki,2016). The DOJ did a research comparing private prisons to state prisons and found that the private prison had many violations of safety to security. The categories that were examined during the research were contraband, reports of incidents, lockdowns, inmate discipline, telephone monitoring, selected grievances, urinalyses drug test, and sexual misconduct. Contract prisons had a higher rate of assaults by inmates on inmates and by inmates on staff. Private penitentiaries were sited administrative infractions for improper storage of use-of-force video footage and systematic deficiencies such as failure to initiate discipline in over fifty percent of the incidents reviewed by on-site monitors over a six-month