Current status of prison privatization research on American prisons and jails
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 increas...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Criminology & public policy
Year: 2019, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-293 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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