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What exactly is prison privatization?

April 26, 2017prison privatization

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What exactly is prison privatization?

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Beth Wankel Posted

Prison privatization is when a person or corporation from the private sector (i.e. not the government or other public institution) builds, runs and is in charge of the prison facility. Often this is the result of overcrowding and large costs for taxpayers with publicly run prisons.

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The term “privatization” is a misnomer since it correctly and narrowly applies to private sector financing and ownership of infrastructure traditionally financed and owned by the public sector. In common usage, however, prison privatization has come to include not only the transfer of infrastructure from the public to private sector, but the fast-track design and construction and the contracted operation of a facility by the private sector.