Private prison

Because prisons are extremely labor intensive, with approximately 65 to 70 percent of the costs of operating a prison going to staff salaries according to a Global Investment and Business Center report, reducing expenditures associated with operational costs would in turn lead to a more cost effective operation. This is possible as private firms typically use cheaper nonunion labor. The Adler School Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice reveals that the average private prison employee receives 58 fewer hours of training when compared to those from the public sector.They also suggests that lower staff levels and training at private facilities may lead to increases in incidences of violence and escapes. As a result, the increased emphasis…

compare the public and private prison systems currently in affect in the United States. In this essay both financial as well as health and safety statistics will be compared, as well as first hand testimony from those involved with the ongoing debate on prison conditions, leadership, and purpose in the United States, from those in favour and against private and public prisons. Private prisons do have the freedom to hire who the want, and fire who they want. They choose what types of food and…

5. What issues are associated with “privatized prisons”? What does research indicate when private prisons are compared with public prisons? Private prisons have been having an issue on the good information since they are business with the aim of generating greatest profits by all the means that area available. The provisions of the humane and safe conditions in the confinement of the law offenders while in the custody are their distant and secondary goal. Private prisons have been found to be…

International Center for Prison Studies is the world leader in “incarcerated population and the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, with 748 inmates per 100,000 residents” of that it is mostly in the twenty through twenty four age group. These people will in most cases never have a chance at advancement in life quality having to either survive from minimum wage jobs or join the military which will only accept people with a felony or lower in special cases. Since the change in…

Private prisons lobby for harsh criminal laws to increase profit at the cost of inmates’ wellbeing. In 1998 election cycle, private prisons contributed $540,000 to 361 politicians (Anderson, 2009). Bribes were also used as method to encourage private prisons. In 2009, two Pennsylvania judges received $2.6 million to oppose alternative and lenient sentences for juveniles (Anderson, 2009) Incarceration negatively affects recidivism rates (Anderson, 2009). To emphasize, on what private prisons have…

and the CCA and other private prison 's profits were skyrocketing. Private prisons have no incentive to decrease crime because it would decrease their profits. They would even compromise the safety of inmates, staff and the community by minimizing cost of staff, security and services if it meant they would profit from it. The most important thing for private prison corporations is money, they see prisoners as an opportunity to make money and not a human being. Private prisons motives are purely…

The private prison system is a system that allows for private prisons to contract work from corporations by using the prisoners as workers. These workers work for just a few dimes and nickels a day. A former writer for the El Diario La Prensa, in New York, Vicky Pelaez tells the prisoners’ stories for them. In her article titled, “The Prison in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” she points out the negative impact of private prisons on the sentencing of African-Americans…

It has been documented that private “for profit” correctional institutions have gained a substantial foothold in the prison landscape. In the 1980s, a qualitative shift in the relation between corrections and private businesses began due to the raise of private prison management. Private prisons-both state and federal-represent just a small slice of the eighty billion dollars spend yearly on corrections (Markowitz, 2016). In 1995, there were less than 30 adult confinement facilities operated by…

Private Prisons: Political and Practical Concerns The United States is a prison society. We have the second highest incarceration rate in the world (second to only the small island country of Seychelles), have almost as many current prisoners as China and Russia put together, and sentence convicts to longer sentences than most other governments (Walmsley, 2015; Human Rights Watch, 2014). We are the only country in the world that sentences minors to life without parole and, up until 2005, the law…

Imagine making a mistake in your life and being sent to prison only to be exploited in a way that makes you feel like less than a human being. Often the companies that own these prisons overlook the conditions and maintenance in order to keep their profits maximized. Inmates are treated like numbers rather than people, because companies are focused on the number of prisoners they can house rather than the number of prisoners they can rehabilitate. Author Seth Wessler wrote about the harsh…