Difference Between Public And Private Prisons

Public prisons and private prisons are different. You ask what the difference is between the two. Well, public prisons have better quality of confinement for inmates and have well trained management, even though it cost too much; private prisons lack quality of confinement and have poorly trained management, but saves the taxpayers money. With the push for private prisons to house non-treating, less violent inmates because of over populated public prisons. The care for inmates is substantially lower than public prisons. Standards are required for confinement incorporating sanitation, health care, and other basic conditions. In a survey of Federal, State, and Private Prisons, the public prisons were favored by 18% in the care for inmates (Logan,
With a private prison, they typical have a lower staffing level and minimum training. In a recent study, it showed that inmate assaults on guards were 49% more frequent at private prisons than government prisons. Even though sometimes private facilities paid more salary, most officers prefer state ran prisons because of the state benefits, security of position, and their seniority. When it comes to quality of trained officers, experience weights a lot. It was found in Logan (1992) that state ran prisons correctional officers averaged at least three years’ experience in the field, when private prisons correctional officers averaged only half a year of
Some have to adjust by processing inmates for early release, changing sentencing and parole guidelines, and even allowing low-risk prisoners to go home with home detection monitoring devices just to get housing numbers to par. In a study of Reason Foundation, California’s government ran correctional facilities average $162 per day to house inmates when contracting out-of state privately ran prisons were paying an average of $72 a day for housing prisons. California decided to reduce cost by transferring 5,000 low to medium security inmates in one year would save 111 million dollars just that year. Their plan to send a total on 25,000 inmates to privately operated prisons, 5,000 per year for five years, would save over 1.6 billion dollars (Gilroy, Summers, Randazzo, & Kenny, 2010). Both governments owned and private ran correctional facilities typically face similar cost. Some cost are per diem rates “cost” for inmates, cost of correctional officers to staff the facilities, food, any type of education/rehabilitation programs, facility maintenance, healthcare, and more. The Federal Bureau of Prisons did research on the price per inmate with 14 government operated facilities and 2 contracted/private prisons. With that, 90% of the public prisons were 15% higher than private operated prisons. This shows that private prisons can house inmates at a lower cost than public prisons. When analyzing the direct