Part 2 - Overcrowded Michigan County Jails: Is There a Private Sector Solution? [Mackinac Center]

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