Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities. Status: Active Frequency: 1974, 1979, 1984, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005. Latest data available: 2005 Conducted approximately every five to seven years, the Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities provides detailed information on the types of inmates housed, facility age and type, building plans, security level, court orders, programs, facility operations and security conditions, confinement space, and staff characteristics.
The Census furnishes the sampling frame for the nationwide Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. The Census included prison and prison farms; reception, diagnostic and classification centers; facilities for parole violators; road and forestry correctional camps; facilities for youthful offenders, and drug and alcohol treatment facilities. The questionnaire is modified with each iteration to capture information on evolving issues in criminal justice and topics of greatest interest to users.
Private prisons – the best investment in America? Arizona Immigration Law « The CCA 360. Following an extensive internal investigation by its news department, NPR corrected two reports broadcast in 2010 that inaccurately reported a role by CCA in the drafting, lobbying and support for Arizona’s immigration enforcement law (SB1070). Those reports, cited by numerous media and privatization critics, have been the basis for an ongoing sequence of false allegations about CCA’s role in the development, lobbying and support for immigration laws. CCA has consistently and unequivocally refuted these allegations.
We are pleased to see that NPR, the source of the original inaccuracies, has corrected them. Under longstanding company policy, CCA takes no role in the drafting, lobbying or support for immigration or crime/sentencing laws. The first correction, which can be found at the top of the original report here, states: As we reported, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce was the originator of the draft legislation that later became Arizona SB 1070. What's costlier than a government run prison? A private one - Aug. 18, 2010. By D.M. Levine, contributorAugust 18, 2010: 12:17 PM ET FORTUNE -- Early this month, three convicted murderers escaped from a prison in Kingman, a small town along Route 66 in northwest Arizona. According to reports, the inmates had broken free from the facility by using a pair of wire cutters.
They'd escaped from a medium-security facility operated by Utah-based Management & Training Corp, a private corrections company. The incident set off a political furor, not over the fact that the three violent criminals were being held in a medium-security prison, but over the security of the facility itself, and, ultimately, over Arizona's widespread use of private correctional facilities. Arizona's attorney general, Terry Goddard, a Democrat running for governor against incumbent Republican Janice Brewer, took the opportunity to indict the state's infatuation with privatization. A prison too far? "This escape has put everything in stark relief," says Goddard. Law enforcement locked out of prison? Prisons - Privatization Of Prisons - Private, Public, Facilities, and Inmates. Rising prison populations and the need to expand the prison system in the states has led to calls for privatization in this sphere as in others (telecommunications, FIGURE 4.1Percent of convicted felons who received a prison sentence, 1994–2002SOURCE: Adapted from Matthew R.
Durose and Patrick A. Langan, "Percent of Convicted Felons Who Received a Prison Sentence, 1994–2002," in Felony Sentences in State Courts, 2002, Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2004, (accessed March 31, 2005) electric power). The basic assumption behind this movement is that the private sector is inherently more efficient and flexible than public bureaucracies because it is less constrained by regulations and is more cost effective. Private facilities also save the public the initial costs of prison construction, since those costs are assumed by private contractors. Money. Diem. Investors. Supplemental Financial Data. SEC Filings. Annual Reports. Contracted prisons cut costs without sacrificing quality, study finds. Public release date: 29-Apr-2013 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Brandon Lauschblausch@temple.edu 215-204-4115Temple University As states continue to grapple with aging correctional facilities, overcrowding, underfunded retiree obligations and other constraints, new research from Temple University's Center for Competitive Government finds that privately operated prisons can substantially cut costs – from 12 percent to 58 percent in long-term savings – while performing at equal or better levels than government-run prisons.
Temple economics Professors Simon Hakim and Erwin A. Blackstone analyzed government data from nine states that generally have higher numbers of privately held prisoners (Arizona, California, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas), and Maine, which does not contract its corrections services. In California, for example, the researchers estimated that contracted prison facilities save between 32 percent and 58 percent. Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies — Justice Policy Institute. Paul Ashton, Justice Policy Institute Published: June 22, 2011 At a time when many policymakers are looking at criminal and juvenile justice reforms that would safely shrink the size of our prison population, the existence of private prison companies creates a countervailing interest in preserving the current approach to criminal justice and increasing the use of incarceration. While private prison companies may try to present themselves as just meeting existing demand for prison beds and responding to current market conditions, in fact they have worked hard over the past decade to create markets for their product.
As revenues of private prison companies have grown over the past decade, the companies have had more resources with which to build political power, and they have used this power to promote policies that lead to higher rates of incarceration. Download Full ReportExecutive SummaryPress Release Other Resources. Prison Privatization. What's costlier than a government run prison? A private one - Aug. 18, 2010. Prisons - Privatization Of Prisons - Private, Public, Facilities, and Inmates.
Contracted prisons cut costs without sacrificing quality, study finds. What's costlier than a government run prison? A private one - Aug. 18, 2010. National Private Prison Issues | American Friends Service Committee. BOP: Federal Bureau of Prisons Web Site. BOP: Federal Bureau of Prisons Web Site.