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| What's driving prison privatization? |
| By concordmonitor.com - Richard A. Hesse |
| Published: 06/27/2012 |
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NH -- In the 2011 state budget bill, the Legislature established a committee to develop a plan for privatizing the Department of Corrections and to review proposals submitted to the commissioner of administrative services. That committee was charged to report its findings and recommendations to legislative leaders, the governor and the public by December 2011. Efforts to extend the life of the committee and its deadline for reporting failed. Nonetheless, the privatization plan appears to go forward without further legislative review. The reasons for this movement are unclear at best. The generalized claim of cost savings has little or no support unless the intention is to provide even fewer services and substantially reduce conditions in the prisons. Studies by the American Friends Service Committee and the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance amply demonstrate that the companies bidding to operate private prisons here have not produced those savings elsewhere. Even worse, as Arnie Alpert discussed in his column ("Public deserves a say in private prison debate," Monitor Opinion page, June 23), the operations of those private prisons have been critically substandard. Thus, while failing to achieve the desired savings, the private companies have exposed the government to lawsuits. Read More. |
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