Private Prison Case Study

The rate of payment by the federal and local governments to the privatized industry also differs between the United States, Brazil, and France. In the United States the government pays per prisoner. (Cabral 2013) In France the government provides a fixed amount of money that covers their costs and payment according to the size of the facility. Brazil places a price cap on the amount of funding it will pay to a private prison. Once the facility has reached its maximum agreed price limit, then they do not receive any more funding. This provides the prisons in France and Brazil with extra motivation to reduce their inmate population. Because of this there is no desire to lengthen the stay of their inmates in order to increase their profit margin.

This places lesser-trained correctional officers in the same situations as our regularly trained civil servants. According to a study covering 873 correctional facilities in the U.S. (762 state, 93 federal, 18 privately operated) observed that even though, as a group private prisons were less likely to experience violence, private prisons with violence exhibited the highest rate of violence. (Cabral 2013) This is very interesting because private facilities are charged with handling less violent inmates. This statistic directly shows that the private prison staff is not properly trained in handling violence. It is also very hard to find non-biased studies conducted on the private sector. Private sector employees are also paid less than those who are employed by the government. This makes these jobs less desirable and in turn less qualified employees are hired. In Brazil civil servants are society’s eyes in outsourced prisons. (Cabral 2013) In the United States we use monitor our private prisons through inspections, which are not released to the

The people did not start the war on drugs; therefore it is not the responsibility to pay for increased prison budgets every single year. Those who run private prisons report they not only incarcerate their inmates more humanely, but they save money. Tinmar (1990) states our prison population has doubled since 1980. PRIDE is used as an acronym for Florida’s Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises Inc. This program generated 64 billion dollars in gross revenue with a profit of 3 million dollars. This is profitability is much higher than what non-private prisons generate. PRIDE’s sole purpose is to provide adequate health care, and rehabilitation for inmates, while saving United States tax dollars. A for every dollar a PRIDE employee earns, deductions are made for incorporation into the Victim 's Restitution Program, and a further percentage is returned to the system as payment for the accommodation and care of the inmate. (Tinmar 1990) This program allows inmates to get the healthcare and job training they need to survive release while helping them actually pay for their