PFI Prisons Essay

In order to keep the public peace, the existence of the prisons are necessary. Criminals are isolated from the society and educated to return there safely. However, most of the prisons are unaccepted by people, because their image would be like this; all criminals are wearing the same clothes, performing the same movements, sometimes punished by the officer, and always trying to escape, so it is dangerous to get close there. Moreover, prisons are said to have many socially problems, such as criminals’ human rights, their excessive number, their recommitment, and the relationship with its area. Recently, however, new type of prison is appearing. That is, so-called ‘PFI Prisons.’ The word of ‘PFI’ stands for ‘Private Finance initiative’: private companies take initiative of the business, which the government had been done before. By applying this new
This essay is going to explain why and how those principles works.

Seeing the history of PFI prisons, the first policy, the cooperation between the government and the private sector, was established so as to avoid the devotion of criminals’ human rights. In Japan, PFI itself was introduced in 2004, and started with the facility of the school lunch or the hot spring. After several years, that of prison was about to introduced. However, the government was reluctant to carry out the plan; is it really Okay to confide with the security aspect, or do the citizens agree with this idea? At this very time, one serious trouble had occurred;in 2002, three criminals were killed by the prison officers in Nagoya. This case was reported to the every direction and criticized greatly, as everyone had a question that whether the prison officer has the right to do anything he or she wants and