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Privatizing Correctional Institutions

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Gary W. Bowman, Simon Hakim, and Paul Seidenstat, eds.

With the American prison system in disarray, the public interest demands that government look beyond the public or private identity of those who wish to provide correctional services and focus instead on who can provide the best service at a given cost. This timely volume explores the issues of private versus public financing, construction, and management of medium- and high-security prisons. The analyses also give due consideration to the various objectives other than cost that correctional services must meet.

1993. 246 pp. $34.95 cloth.
ISBN 1-56000-055-4.

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Contents

Forward
Warren E. Burger

1. Introduction
Gary W Bowman, Simon Hakim, and Paul Seidenstat

2. Partial Privatization of Prison Operations: Let's Give It a Chance
Warren I. Cikins

3. Private Corrections: The Delicate Balance
Robert D. McCrie

4. The Future of Correctional Privatization: Lessons from the Past
Alexis M. Durham III

5. The Privatization of Secure Adult Prisons: Issues and Evidence
Dana C. Joel

6. Bars on the Iron Triangle: Public Policy Issues in the Privatization of Corrections
Michael Janus 7.

Federal Government Involvement in Private Sector Partnerships with Prison Industries
Barbara Auerbach

8. PRIDE of Florida: A Working Model for Immates
Judith Schloegel

9. The Public-Private Partnership: A Challenge and an Opportunity for Corrections
Norman R. Cox, Jr. and William E. Osterhoff

10. Minimizing Liability with Private Management of Correctional Facilities
Linda G. Cooper

11. Privatization of Corrections: A Threat to Prisoners' Rights
Harold J. Sullivan

12. Proving Privatization Works
H. Laws McCullough and Timothy S. Maguigan

13. For Profit Jails: A Risky Business
Todd Mason

14. Low Cost, High Quality, Good Fit: Why Not Privatization?
Wayne H. Calabrese

15. Comparison of Privately and Publically Operated Corrections Facilities in Kentucky and Massachusetts
Harry P. Hatry, Paul J. Brounstein, and Robert B. Levinson

16. The Development, Present Status, and Future Potential of Correctional Privatization in America
Charles W. Thomas and Charles H. Logan

Index

Editors

DR. GARY W. BOWMAN has been associate professor of economics at Temple University since 1973. His research focuses on applications of microeconomics including public and managerial decisions and policy in such areas as privatization, regulation, and antitrust. He has published approximately fifteen articles and headed funded research projects from the National Science Foundation and other sources.

DR. SIMON HAKIM has been with Temple University since 1975, and is currently professor of economics. He has published over thirty scientific articles and has edited four books as well as having conducted funded research projects for governmental agencies and private companies. His work centers on analysis of criminal behavior, police operations, and privatization of justice institutions.

DR. PAUL SEIDENSTAT has been on the faculty of Temple University since 1967 and is currently associate professor of economics and director of the graduate program. He has been principal investigator for several research projects for federal government agencies, and local governments as finance director and financial advisor. His research has been in the area of state and local government finance and management and urban and environmental economics and he has published a book and several articles in these fields.

Authors

BARBARA AUERBACH, Criminal Justice Associates, Philadelphia, PA

PAUL J. BROUNSTEIN, president, Prism Enterprises, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD

WARREN E. BURGER, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (retired)

WAYNE H. CALABRESE, vice president, Business Development, Wackenhut Corporation, Coral Gables, FL

WARREN I. CIKINS, senior staff member, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

LINDA G. COOPER, vice-president of legal affairs, Corrections Corporation of America, Nashville, TN

NORMAN R. COX, president, N.R. Cox Associates, Ft. Worth, TX

ALEXIS M. DURHAM III, director Criminal Justice Program, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

HARRY P. HATRY, director, State and Local Research Program, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC

MICHAEL JANUS, associate warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Milan, MI

DANA JOEL, director of policy for state projects, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Washington, DC

ROBERT B. LEVINSON, special projects manager, American Correctional Association, Laurel, MD

CHARLES H. LOGAN, associate professor of sociology, University of Connecticut & visiting fellow, Federal Bureau of Prisons

TIMOTHY S. MAGUIGAN, administrator, Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Minimum Security, Detention Facility, Tuscaloosa, AL

TODD MASON, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal

ROBERT D. McCRIE, assistant professor Department of Law & Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, NY

H. LAWS McCULLOUGH, director of Corporate Relations and CoMmunications, PRICOR, Murfreesboro, TN

WILLIAM E. OSTERHOFF, professor, Department of Justice & Public Safety, Auburn University at Montgomery, ALA

JUDITH SCHLOEGEL, vice president, Division of Inmate Programs Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified, Enterprises, Inc. (PRIDE), Clearwater, FL

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