Part 2 - Overcrowded Michigan County Jails: Is There a Private Sector Solution?

By Dr. Charles Van Eaton, published on April 1, 1989

Contents

I. Current Private Sector Involvement in the Corrections System
II. Does the Private Prison Cost Less to Build and Operate? If So, Why?
- A. The Current Evidence on Cost
- B. Why Lower Cost? Some Observations.
III. Objections to Jail Privatization
- A. The Legality Question: Point and Counter-Point
- B. The Moral-Social Control Question. Point and Counter-Point