Quote Originally Posted by ShadeHonestus
Do you have any examples from your experience that are exceptions to the general rule of private prisons proving inadequate.

To show maybe the well intentioned ideal, but which the majority fail to even attempt.
The main reason to switch to privately run jails is to decrease the cost to taxpayers and at least maintain the same care, custody, and control of the incarcerated. Tax savings seem to be minimal, and the care,custody,control is definitely much worse. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of mismanagement & waste in the State Correctional system, mostly because the oversight is lackadaisical, political & patronage interference, sometimes even corrupt. If the State Department can't manage their own people well, how can they expect to attempt to manage a private enterprise any better.