Question

what are your thoughts about prison privatization? Issues and problems dealing with this topic ?

Negatives about private prisons,?

Answer 1

Prison privatisation is one such aspect of the government which is economically more beneficial as it is estimated that the government is spending way too much in maintaining the prisoners where the annual cost of maintenance a single inmate is about $30,000 and in order to reduce the cost the government handed over to third party who is expert in maintaining the prisoners and paying a lot less when compared to that of what it would cost for the government. Also a study conducted by the National Institute of Justice tells us that private prisons are more safer and repeated prisoners are very less because living conditions are better than compared to that of public prisons. This is the advantage of it Inspite of the advantages, it can also be mentioned that private entities are always profit seeking entities and one of the issue to deal with this is that they can employ less number of guards for large presence as well in order to reduce the costs in this can be more dangerous when compared to that of government presence and apart from that there is also a case where transparency issue in come out and this is one such negative that should be dealt with. There can also be unjust treatment for the prisoners as well.