Governments' Management of Private Prisons

By Mcdonald, Douglas

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Title:	Governments' Management of Private Prisons
Author:	Mcdonald, Douglas
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mcdonald, D. (n.d.). Governments' Management of Private Prisons. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Foreword: This is the report of a project supported by grant number 98-CX-VX-002 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Nor do they represent the position or policies of Abt Associates Inc. Abt Associates are a non-partisan research corporation that takes no position as a corporation on the matters examined here. Voncile Gowdy, Ph.D. served as the monitor for this grant at the Institute, and Ronald Everett, Ph.D. assumed this responsibility following Dr. Gowdy?s retirement. We appreciate their support and assistance. The sources of information used for this report were several. A mail survey was sent to directors of correction in state and federal governments to inquire about several aspects of contracting practices as of the end of 1997. Additional information was collected by means of telephone interviews with selected directors in several states, which were conducted by Tom Rolfs, the retired director of the Washington State Department of Corrections? Institutional Division. Mr. Rolfs served as a consultant to this project. Richard Crane, an attorney and an expert in legal and contracting issues surrounding privatization, also served as a consultant to the study. He advised us on various aspects of contracting.

Table of Contents
Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix One View: The Market is Most Efficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix A Contrary View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx Failures at Privately Operated Prisons: Who Gets Blamed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Exercising ?Buying Power?Strategically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv The Challenge of Developing New Methods of Managing Mixed Public and Private Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi What This Report Is About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii A Roadmap to This Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx 1. Why Contract? Governments? Objectives in Turning to Private Imprisonment Firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Turning to the Private Sector to Acquire Needed Resources Expeditiously . . . . . . . 1 Two Private Prisons Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. The Contractual Structure: Selected Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Facility Ownership and the Risks of Entrenchment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Payment Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Designing Performance Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The ?Making Government Accountable? Movement and Its Implications for Contracting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Performance Standards in Criminal Justice Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Performance-Based Contracting for Criminal Justice Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Operational and Non-Operational Goals in Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. Monitoring Contractors? Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 How Closely are Facilities Monitored? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 The Purpose of Monitoring and the Monitors? Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Monitoring Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Designating Outcomes to be Monitored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Exactly How is Such Performance Measured and Monitored? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39