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	Private Prisons:Profits of Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Privatized prisons, then, are not a quantum leap toward dismantling the state but simply an extension of the already significant private sector involvement in corrections.
		Prisons form a very narrow platform from which to alter behavior that is shaped by myriad factors, but these institutions, and the criminal justice system as a whole, are charged with precisely that task.
		Private prisons are a symptom, a response by private capital to the "opportunities" created by society's temper tantrum approach to the problem of criminality in the context of free-market supremacy.
	mediafilter.org /MFF/Prison.html (3352 words)

	PRIVATE PRISONS
		Private prison industries work like public prison industries in that inmates receive daily pay for their labour and the goods and services produced are sold to the public.
		Private prisons tend to be of a lower security classification or juvenile detention facilities, offering different programming than their public sector counterparts.
		Third, if private interests are given control over release of an offender on parole, it is believed that the profit motive will cause them to hold prisoners as long as possible, particularly if their pay per inmate is based on a per diem rate.
	www.johnhoward.ab.ca /PUB/C45.htm (8795 words)

	ipedia.com: Prison Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war.
		Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, and those whose freedom is deemed a risk by military authorities.
		The argument for privatization stresses cost reduction, whereas the arguments against it focus on standards of care, and the question of whether a market economy for prisons might not also lead to a market demand for prisoners (that is, a strong lobby for ever-tougher sentencing to satisfy the need for cheap labor).
	www.ipedia.com /prison.html (1108 words)

	Reason Foundation: Frequently Asked Questions About Prison Privatization
		Private prisons are monitored by state inspectors, and the state is liable for abuses committed by employees of the private firm, so they have an incentive to monitor their conduct.
		Government corrections departments are largely self-policing, while private prisons are continuously monitored by an outside agency to assure compliance with the law and the terms of the contract.
		It is unlikely that private prison firms are going to sway policy in favor of greater incarceration when such polices are obviously already very popular with the general population.
	www.reason.org /corrections/faq_private_prisons.shtml (3683 words)

	Private Prisons Can Lock Down Big Savings for States \| Daily Policy Digest \| NCPA
		Private prisons have proven to be an effective strategy for helping states keep their public corrections budgets under control, according to a new study by researchers from Vanderbilt University.
		Additional savings would be generated from lower operational costs in the private prisons themselves: according to numerous independent studies, the operating costs of private prisons are, on average, 5 to 20 percent lower than at public corrections facilities.
		States with less than 5 percent of their prison population under private management experienced a 12.5 percent growth in public corrections expenditures compared to an 18.9 percent increase in states with no private prisons.
	www.ncpa.org /sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=5249 (369 words)

	Latest News - Private Prisons, Public Questions
		By the end of 2008, a planned 600-bed private prison is scheduled to open in Clayton.
		Privatization was supposed to wash the stench of prisons off the government.
		Comparing costs of private and state-operated prisons is complicated by the fact that all New Mexico's maximum-security inmates -- who cost more to house because of the need for constant supervision -- are only in state-run facilities.
	www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking07/NM-Private.html (1367 words)

	Private Prisons Could Cut Georgia's Spending, Studies Suggest - by Geoffrey F. Segal and Kelly McCutchen - The ...
		During the study period, states with private prisons saw the growth in daily costs of housing prisoners in the public corrections system reduced by 8.9 percent, or about 4.45 percent each year.
		States with less than 5 percent of their prison population in private facilities experienced a 12.5 percent increase in expenditures, versus an 18.9 percent increase in states with no private prisons.
		Additional savings are possible if existing private prisons in Georgia are given the flexibility, as they are in many other states, to adopt their own best practices, purchasing practices, staffing patterns, and operating procedures.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=16550 (790 words)

	Overview Private Prisons \| Prison Index \| Prison Policy Initiative
		Numerous recent prison conditions and escape scandals have tarnished the previously unknown reputation of private prisons.
		Some states' laws prohibit the use of private prisons, and strong correctional worker unions in some states are a potent lobby against private prisons.
		Due to the poor economy, private prisons might seem an attractive way to add capacity as the government is not required to build the expensive prison before filling it, renting space from the private prison company instead.
	www.prisonpolicy.org /prisonindex/overviewprivate.html (729 words)

	Private-prisons proposal on table
		Lobbyists descended on the Capitol this month to convince legislators that private prisons are the best option for a cash-strapped state facing an inmate overcrowding crisis and are the cheapest deal for taxpayers.
		Donations by private prison executives to Arizona state candidates totaled $6,450 is 2002, $2,848 in 2000 and $7,575 in 1998, according to the Institute on Money in State Politics.
		Some leading Republicans have alleged that Napolitano is protecting unions in her opposition to private prisons.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/special12/articles/1119private-prisons19.html (914 words)

	Prisons for Profit: Private Prisons
		Although private prisons have failed to save much money for taxpayers they generate enormous profits for the companies that own and operate them.
		In addition to being a hidden and costly expense of private prisons, the report cautioned government monitors could "be co-opted by the contractor's staff.
		Private prisons essentially mirror the cost-cutting practices of health maintenance organizations: Companies receive a guaranteed fee for each prisoner, regardless of the actual costs.
	prop1.org /legal/prisons/980105.htm (2687 words)

	Private Prisons Save Money, Boost Productivity, Studies Find (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 2001, according to the study, states without private prisons spent $445 million a year on average for their corrections systems.
		States with less than 5 percent of their prison population in private facilities experienced a 12.5 percent increase in expenditures over the period studied, versus an 18.9 percent increase for states without private prisons.
		States that had turned over larger shares of their prison populations to private management experienced even greater savings: Expenditure growth was just 5.9 percent for this group over the period studied.
	www.rppi.org /privateprisonssave.shtml (1429 words)

	Private Prisons Have Public Benefits: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		Private prisons not only have lower costs than public prisons: by introducing competition they encourage public prisons to also innovate and lower costs.
		Private prisons will reduce costs, not only at their own facilities, but at public prisons as well: Pressured by real competition, public prisons will be forced to cut the fat or risk losing state support.
		At the same time that costs are reduced, prison privatization will lay the foundation for a more open political system one in which a single special-interest group cannot dominate what should be matters of public policy.
	www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=1411 (969 words)

	SSRN-State Punishment and Private Prisons by Sharon Dolovich
		To date, the debate over private prisons has focused largely on the relative efficiency of private prisons as compared to their publicly run counterparts, and has assumed that, if private contractors can run the prisons for less money than the state without a drop in quality, then states should be willing to privatize.
		Second, it accepts the current state of public prisons as an unproblematic baseline, thus failing to consider the possibility that neither public prisons as presently constituted nor private prisons in the form currently on offer are adequate to satisfy society's obligations to those it incarcerates.
		Second, it makes it possible to see that the state's use of private prisons is the logical extension of policies and practices that are already standard features of the penal system in general, thus throwing into sharper relief several problematic aspects of this system that are currently taken for granted.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=890326 (525 words)

	States Turn To Private Prisons As Inmate Populations Increase
		However, prison privatization is now back with a vengeance, thanks to mandatory sentencing, prison overcrowding and burgeoning corrections budgets.
		States are flocking to prison privatization to cut costs and because many of their prisons and jails are overflowing.
		Because private prisons are newer and designed to require less manpower, their operation tends to be cheaper.
	www.stateline.org /live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=137&languageId=1&contentId=13812 (719 words)

	Scoop: National Committed To Private Prisons - Speech
		The ban on private prisons is based on ideology rather than any logic or evidence.
		This becomes even clearer when you consider that the Government, at the same time as abolishing private prisons, is inviting the private sector to provide prisoner custody services between prisons and courthouses.
		The privately run Auckland Central Remand Prison costs $43,000 a year per inmate on average for low to high security inmates in a high-security environment.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0402/S00503.htm (2183 words)

	PRIVATIZING HELL!...Prisons, Profits & Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This prison was recently visited by Victorian corrections minister Pat McNamara as part of the Kennett government's strategy of replacing Fairlea women's prison with a private prison.
		The private prisons' passion for keeping things out of the public eye is illustrated by the fact that after the Brisbane Courier Mail ran stories criticising the private jail following the fourth death, the paper was contacted by the prison's lawyers threatening to sue them for damage to the prison's “commercial reputation”.
		Private contractors were removed from corrections because of the high rates of death and abuse.
	www.the-catbird-seat.net /PrivatePrisons.htm (7847 words)

	PRIVATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		My private opinion is that privatization of prisons not only saves tax payers money, it also increases the pay for publicly ran prisons.
		The private company was responsible for the maintenance of the institution, care of the inmates and maintaining the security of the institution.
		Even though there was a claim of an earlier threat of a riot by prisoners and suspected marijuana in the inmate areas, what appeared to be punishment of prisoners by the guards would undoubtedly be deemed unnecessary and excessive force by a reasonable, professional corrections officer.
	www.open.org /~hawley/private.htm (3268 words)

	Paul's criminal justice page: private prison, the prison - industrial complex and the corrections corporation of america
		Private Prisons for Dummies: The Wild Ride of the Corrections Corporation of America...
		Yes, that's the Marriott as in hotels and food service because private prisons work on an occupancy rate basis (higher vacancies, less profit) and they have thousands of people who require regular feeding.
		Charles Thomas - on the Board of Trustees for Prison Realty, founder of the Private Prison Institute at the University of Florida, holder of a government post involving the regulation of private prisons and author of research claiming a lower recidivism rate for private prisons.
	www.paulsjusticepage.com /crimepays.htm (773 words)

	Privatize Our Prisons, a website to promote the privatization of prisons by Paul Molloy
		Prison upkeep will always be a priority and the government will always be a monitor for that.
		Prisoners would be paid an hourly wage … with that wage going toward prison room and board … a nest egg for the prisoner upon his release … and to fund payment to any victims of his crime or crimes.
		Prison employees will be needed for private prisons … in fact – even more so.
	www.angelfire.com /rant/privateprisons (1134 words)

	Private prisons? \| Jerusalem Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The probability of the court again overturning a law was deemed sufficiently high by the justices themselves to warrant a special notification issued to the Knesset speaker to allow the legislature opportunity to address the court on the issue.
		Private prisons exist primarily in the US, where commercial concerns construct, own and operate penal institutions and are paid by the contracting governmental agency per prisoner, per day.
		Some American prison facilities were entrusted to private management already in the early 1800s, generating conditions often close to slavery, especially when convict labor was "leased" to private companies.
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355519988&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull (695 words)

	Private Prisons
		The state Legislature has chosen to support the use of private and regional prisons in order to provide enough housing for inmates.
		Regional prisons in Cascade County, Dawson County, and Missoula County offer an opportunity for the Department of Corrections to work with local counties in housing both state and county prisoners.
		These additional contract beds increase the flexibility in the prison system and have allowed the state to bring its inmates back from out-of-state facilities and eliminate jail holds.
	www.cor.state.mt.us /facts/private.asp (189 words)

	Citizens Against Private Prisons - Home
		Opponents of private prisons throughout the world are heralding the provincial Liberal government's decision to bring Central North Correctional Centre into the public fold.
		Private prison mandate was wrong decision - Arizona legislators have made their philosophical point.
		The Prison Officers Association called for the return of Rye Hill jail to public control yesterday, after the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers found that staff at the private prison are being bullied by inmates.
	capp.50megs.com (1752 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Private prisons: lessons to be learned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She related the story of the local baker at Junee who won the prison contract but was later replaced when ACM found another baker in a larger nearby town who could provide the bread cheaper.
		When the Victorian government enacted legislation to allow for private prisons, they inserted a clause which said that private prisons were going to be subject to freedom of information legislation.
		Given the secrecy surrounding private prison operations, the report by the contract monitor, who spends time at the prison each week, is the only way some of the problems have come to light.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1995/194/11647 (1493 words)

	HM Prison Service - Contracted Out Prisons
		Privately managed prisons were introduced to the UK in the 1990s.
		HM Chief Inspectorate of Prisons inspects private prisons in the same way as public sector prisons.
		All private prisons have a 'Controller' linking them to the Home Office, and the governors of private prisons are called 'Directors'.
	www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk /prisoninformation/privateprison (145 words)

	Oklahoma Department of Corrections
		Title 57, Section 561-563 of Oklahoma State Statutes authorizes the Board of Corrections to contract with private prison contractors and public trusts for the operation of a prison.
		It is the responsibility of the Private Prison Administration unit to actively seek out additional bed space, through one or more of the statutorily authorized processes, when it is anticipated the Department of Corrections facilities will exceed maximum capacity.
		Each contract monitor will observe and ensure that the private prison facility is providing all applicable services and programs required by law or by the standards of the American Correctional Association Commission on Accreditation.
	www.doc.state.ok.us /field/private_prisons/privates.htm (682 words)

	SSRN-Do Government Agencies Respond to Market Pressures? Evidence from Private Prisons by James Blumstein, Mark Cohen, ...
		We examine data on the cost of housing public and private prisoners from all 50 states over the time period 1996-2004, and find that the existence of private prisons in a state reduces the growth in per prisoner expenditures by public prisons by a statistically significant amount.
		Our findings suggest that if the “average” state in that group were to introduce the use of private prisons, the potential savings for one year in Department of Corrections expenditures for public prisons could be approximately $15 to $18 million for that particular hypothetical state.
		These savings on public prisons would be in addition to any direct savings from the use of private prisons by itself.
	www.ssrn.com /abstract=441007 (339 words)

	NCPA - BA #191 - Private Prisons Succeed
		Fourth, private prisons are designed to operate efficiently with fewer personnel in a way public prisons are not.
		Second, not a single private facility is operating under a consent decree or court order as a consequence of suits brought by prisoner plaintiffs.
		Third, private prisons comply with the standards of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections and have a much higher accreditation rate than government prisons.
	www.ncpa.org /~ncpa/ba/ba191.html (1181 words)

	The South Texans Opposing Private Prisons (STOPP)
		New in the resources section is the resolution passed by the Encinal Economic Development Corporation against any new prison or detention bed construction in Encinal.
		South Texans Opposing Private Prisons (STOPP) was formed in the fall of 2003 in an effort to stop the expansion of the incarceration industry in south Texas - starting with the construction of the Laredo “superjail.” The “superjail” is a proposed 2,800 bed detention facility solicited by the US Marshals Service.
		Private prisons pose serious moral questions about operating prison for profit and have been rocked by a series of scandals.
	www.stoppcoalition.org (525 words)

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