Proponents of privatization claim that private prisons can provide: A quick resp

Proponents of privatization claim that private prisons can provide: A quick response to facility overcrowding. Higher quality and more cost-effective services. Improved conditions of confinement. Economic growth in the communities where new private facilities are built. The primary ways private prisons sustain their profits include: low pay, limited staff training, and other cost-cutting measures that can lead to unmet inmate needs and security issues. There are also significant issues with the government’s ability to effectively monitor the private prisons. Although the desire for a quick solution to overcrowding is to contract with private prisons for bed space, secondary rationales include cost savings and improved services. In addition, states and local jurisdictions seek partnerships with prison companies to establish private facilities as a way to boost their economies. Because corrections systems are supported by state and local funds, the fiscal crisis required government officials to either significantly scale back spending on prisons, jails, and local community corrections or make cuts in more politically popular areas of government options, such as education, health care, and environmental protection