‘A public-private prison symbiosis’

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on November 20, 2008 at 11:23 pm

Vanderbilt researchers – funded initially by CCA – say states benefit financially from competition between public and private prison operators.

“…[From] 1999 to 2004, the overall average cost of housing a prisoner in a public facility grew by almost 5 percent in states without a private prison population. States that had some prisoners in privately run prisons had their average cost go up less than 2 percent.”

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Tags: academic research, Corrections Corp. of America, Jim Blumstein, Mark Cohen, prison management, public-private partnerships, Vanderbilt University