The privatization concept has been used as a solution to manage the congestion of prison population at a lower cost. However, the results of this approach fail to meet up with humanitarian and social problems which are present in these private facilities. One could argue that the private prisons rather perpetuate the vast increase of prisoners (Anderson, 2009). Nevertheless, this does have a negative impact on the care of these prisoners in rehabilitating and treating them effectively due to motivation of revenue. The quality of care reduces drastically, since these companies strive to reduce costs by any means. Consequently, this may result in facilities lacking sufficient security and inadequate services required for such a corporation. A
