Unit Four – Public or Privatized Prison Systems
Phillip Ishee
American InterContinental University
Abstract
This assignment will discuss two arguments that the public sector prisons can make to keep prisons in the public’s hands, while also discussing two arguments the private sector can make to get the prisons in their hands. This assignment will also discuss any legal issues of privatizing prisons and the challenges both private and public prisons face.
During the course of a prison and its lifetime it may run into problems. When prisons run into problems the solutions can come easily or they can be tough to get. When it comes to problems such as budgets and overcrowding, privatizing prisons can seem like a good idea …show more content…
With this being the case, the private prisons running this way, it allows them to cut their costs in specific areas, mainly safety and working conditions, this also includes cleanliness and how the prisons are performing. There was a report in 2008 that had ranked 10 of the 11 private owned prisons in the UK among the bottom quarter of all prisons. The lack of performance in private owned prisons can take its toll on the public and on the inmates …show more content…
It has been found that some prisons in Florida have been hiding the fact that they were overcrowded in the past; this prison were erecting tents for the inmates at night, shipping them around in the morning during inspections and was only stopped when the U.S. Marshals stopped the buses and turned them in. One of the legal issues is that when a privately owned prison is created and offers to take prisoners because it can save money, they must provide a 7% savings or more. There was a privatization plan in place which was later declared illegal under a violation of the law (Reutter). It is important to remember that when privatizing prisons, the prisons must meet all standards and all employees must meet the standards plus all prison activities must fall into the realm of within the law, thus keeping the prisons on the same level as the state prisons but still allowing cost