Private prison

Private Enterprises or Corporations have had an amazingly large political influence through government ties, campaign contributions, and lobbying power, while attempting to alter the rhetoric of justice into the dialect of the marketplace. With this, they accuse government agencies of having a monopoly on prisons and espouse the need to downsize. These Private Enterprises claimed that they can manage prisons more efficiently and cheaper while saving the taxpayers money. Studies, some moderately…

Privatized Prison System With the United States being the land of the free, you would expect to see very low incarceration rates, but this isn’t the case. Crime rates in the American metropolis areas are blown completely off of the scale when compared to other countries around the world. Which leads to the question, “ why does the United States incarcerate more people than any other country?” through the duration of this essay I will attempt to reveal and provide possible solutions to the…

within prisons, claiming to be cheaper without losing out on quality. However, despite their first institution in 1984 (Seiter 417), private prisons have not met their claims. There is no proof that private prisons save taxpayer money, prisons are still over capacity, and corruption soars. Rather than accommodating the pervasive mass incarceration problem in America, we should look to law reform to reduce incarceration and keep inmates…

Prison Population: The growing business “They speak about school system being used to feed young people into youth detention, jails, and prisons where those bodies are suddenly worth a fortune. People say that the criminal justice system does not work” (Bonnie Kerness). America has captured and controlled the population by putting our people in prisons while private prison companies like Corrections Corporations of America and The GEO group celebrate the fact that they gain more money as the…

state punishment and private prisons. Although state punishment is an important aspect of either prison system, this particular article opens up for more questions and ideologies of the private prison systems to occur. The main question that this article argues is why both the public and prison systems are capable of falling so far below the obligations that they must fulfill? This particular study looks into this question through inferring a deep analysis of the private prison systems in the…

Prisons are a multi-billion dollar industry which relies on the incarceration of criminals. The United States is the number one country for the highest incarceration rate. Incarceration rates continue to rise, and with the increasing population and limited facilities to house inmates prisons are becoming more impacted. There are three types of prisons that house criminals, state prisons, federal prisons and private prisons. With prisons overcrowding, it becomes difficult to decently manage the…

Privatizations of prisons has been the center of criticism for the past few years, the main reason is that, prisoners are being “neglected and abused” by private firms who runs the facility. Over population in the prisons paved way to the privatization of prison systems in the United States. The first private prison in the world was first opened in an old motel in Houston, Texas in the early 1980’s. It was “pioneered by the Correction Corporation of America” financed by the “country’s second…

making their entry into California. They are known as the Private prisons of America. California began using private prisons as an immediate solution to deal with massive overcrowding. Instead of using privatized prisons to eliminate overcrowding, the state should consider alternate solutions because the private prisons only create more problems for the economy, families and immigration. What caused the reemergence of private prisons in California? We can start in 1979 when President Nixon…

Texas’s’ Prison Industrial Complex • Introduction The prison industrial complex can be defined as the rapid expansion of the inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. This is not a new phenomenon in our countries history, however, in recent decades the exponential growth of the inmate population in Texas and at a national scale signifies a disturbing trend. As prisons proliferate in U.S.…

of the day to day running of the prisons. The correctional officers opposed the privatization of Florida prisons because the private corporations were not interested in maintaining the professionalism nor the caliber of the lives that they have earned. Furthermore, in the past individuals would apply for a position as a correctional officer after failure in other careers such as the military, Sheriff’s office, etc.…