Required Discussion Six: The Privatization of Prisons
There has been much discussion about how the world responds to issues associated with housing prisoners around the world. In the United States there has been talk of moving toward private prisons. Should private prisons be a tool of correctional reform? Why or why not? Are there other models from around the world that are perhaps more applicable? If so what are they?
Required Textbooks & Supplementary Materials
Comparative Criminal Justice Systems 5th Edition
by: Harry R. Dammer and Jay S. Albanese
Discussion Board Postings: Each week there will be a required discussion board posting made by the instructor. Each student is to respond to the initial response from the instructor. Each student will then respond to a minimum of two (2) of your fellow classmates’ postings. The responses will have no word limit but must contain substantive content that would move a discussion forward. Comments that merely agree or compliment their fellow classmates’ postings will not receive credit. These postings will be graded based on how well the student addresses both the professor’s and fellow students’ responses. A good rule of thumb would be that the initial response would be approximately 250 words and responses to your fellow classmates will be between 150 to 200 words (but can certainly be more than this amount).
Respond to:
Troy Jarvis
Private Prison should be considered as a tool to ease the overcrowding that has plagued our system for years now. It is no secret that our country imprisons many more than other countries, this perhaps because there is no way forward other than to imprison and hope that crime takes a turn southward. It’s all a pipe dream if that is the fact.
Privatization has been around for some time now, and much of it is government backed. Yet and still, overcrowding continues and the crime rates have seemed to increase. From the first private prison in Pennsylvania in 1975, until 2007, private prisons have house hundreds of thousands of prisoners in about 150 prison locations. That for one, spells big business and big problems.
