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Report: Are Florida’s Private Prisons Keeping Their Promise?
Lack of Evidence to Show They Cost Less and Have Better Outcomes than Public Prisons
Introduction
Over the past 20 years, states have begun to contract with private companies to provide a number of services that had traditionally been government functions performed by public employees. For the most part, supporters of privatization have argued that subjecting various functions to market competition would result in lower costs to taxpayers and higher levels of effectiveness. Child welfare services, concessions in state parks, food services and student transportation in some school districts, and human resource management functions for state agencies are some functions that have been privatized in Florida...
Click to Read the Full Report (.pdf file)Posted: April 12, 2010
Subject: Private Prisons
Doc type: Reports
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Tags: private prisons, budget, public safety, florida, report
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