Articles by Richard Culp, Ph.D.

The Failed Promise of Prison Privatization

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2011 by Richard Culp, Ph.D. published in Prison Legal News October, 2011, page 1

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Esmor/CSC, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Cornell Corrections, U.S. Corrections Corp, Civigenics, Management and Training Corporation, Correctional Services Corp., Contractor Misconduct, Lobbying, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.

We have been experimenting with prison privatization in the U.S. now for over twenty-five years. The privatization idea originated out of a notion that the private sector, with its competition-driven efficiency and innovation, could operate prisons of higher quality and lower cost than the public sector. Create a market for ...