Privatization: Good or Bad for Our Prison System?

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This paper looks at the arguments that favor privatized prison systems and those that oppose it. In support of privatized prison systems, the paper cites the various ways privatization helps eliminate financial waste. Criticisms cited by the paper are the fear that treatment and rehabilitation efforts are overlooked in favor of profit goals, the problem of fraudulent billing by the private companies running the prisons, improper treatment of prisoners, and abuse of incarcerated juveniles.

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"Currently in the United States, the individual states have two choices for running their prisons. They can either do it all themselves, staffing the prisons with guards and other personnel who are state employees, or they can hire a private company to run some or all of their prisons. When they hire a private company to manage prisons, this is called ?privatization.?"

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