RT Article
T1 Current status of prison privatization research on American prisons and jails
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 18
IS 2
SP 269
OP 293
A1 Gaes, Gerald G. 1947-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1667533029
AB Private companies manage 8.4% of the U.S. prison population and 5.4% of the jail population. On average, the costs and quality of privatized facilities seem to be about the same as publicly operated prisons, but the lack of high‐quality studies limits a strong inference. Although states with increases in prison privatization have lower public‐sector costs, this may be a result of strong cost controls, not of their level of privatization. An increase in recidivism seems to occur for people placed in private facilities. This assertion is based on the findings of several studies in which regression controls are used and on only one study in which a strong counterfactual design is applied. Finally, there is no evidence that prison privatization was responsible for the dramatic growth in incarceration that peaked in 2009.
K1 Jail privatization
K1 Prison and jail performance metrics
K1 Prison privatization
K1 Prison quality/cost comparisons
K1 Gefängnisprivatisierung
K1 Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
K1 Rückfälligkeit
K1 Anstieg
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12428