Add to ORKG2019 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.The efficacy of using private contractors to house prisoners has been debated since the first private prison was built in the 1980's. Most of the previous research on private prison costs has focused on case study analysis and has failed to reach a conclusive decision on whether any savings accrue from contracting with private companies. This paper contributes to economic research by examining data over seventeen years across 50 states on their correctional expenditures and the percent of prisoners they have in private prisons to determine whether private prisons are actually cost saving for states to use. To do this, I make use of a fixed effects econometric model to examine if there are any ...
United States conservatism and neoliberalism have created a market for prison privatization. The bus...
The privatization of prisons is generally undertaken by states to lower the cost to the public of ho...
To date, the debate over private prisons has focused largely on the relative efficiency of private p...
This independent study examines and empirically tests the effects of the privatization of prisons in...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
hy are U.S. federal agencies and state and local governments turning to the private sector for corre...
The coercive power of the state is distinctive, and yet incarceration is becoming more widely privat...
The resurgence of private prisons during the 1980s has caused a lot of debate. If a private firm can...
The resurgence of private prisons during the 1980s has caused a lot of debate. If a private firm can...
The thesis Prison Privatization in the United States: The Limits and Consequences of the Transfer of...
Private prisons have been a hot topic of political debate since their official conception in the lat...
Almost every year, for the past three decades, the number of private prisons in the United States ha...
United States conservatism and neoliberalism have created a market for prison privatization. The bus...
The privatization of prisons is generally undertaken by states to lower the cost to the public of ho...
To date, the debate over private prisons has focused largely on the relative efficiency of private p...
This independent study examines and empirically tests the effects of the privatization of prisons in...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
hy are U.S. federal agencies and state and local governments turning to the private sector for corre...
The coercive power of the state is distinctive, and yet incarceration is becoming more widely privat...
The resurgence of private prisons during the 1980s has caused a lot of debate. If a private firm can...
The resurgence of private prisons during the 1980s has caused a lot of debate. If a private firm can...
The thesis Prison Privatization in the United States: The Limits and Consequences of the Transfer of...
Private prisons have been a hot topic of political debate since their official conception in the lat...
Almost every year, for the past three decades, the number of private prisons in the United States ha...
United States conservatism and neoliberalism have created a market for prison privatization. The bus...
The privatization of prisons is generally undertaken by states to lower the cost to the public of ho...
To date, the debate over private prisons has focused largely on the relative efficiency of private p...