How do partnership prisons contain costs?
CCA saves taxpayer dollars in the same way families save money when they shop at retail warehouse clubs or major discount chains. At those stores, you get a better deal because you are buying more at a time. That same principle is one way that CCA saves taxpayers money. With the size of our national correctional system, we are able to buy more at better prices. For example, when a small state prison system negotiates with a medical provider for inmates’ prescription drugs, they are only negotiating for a small number of inmates. But with CCA, we are negotiating for more than 70,000 inmates. Because of that, we’re able to get a better rate – time and time again. And that’s one reason our cost to house, clothe, feed, educate and provide medical care to each inmate each day is typically lower than the average government prison cost. CCA passes those savings on to our government partners. It means fewer tax dollars spent on prisons, leaving more money for other priorities and for the taxpa
