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Managing A Correctional Marketplace: Prison Privatization In The United States And The United Kingdom, David Pozen Jan 2003

Managing A Correctional Marketplace: Prison Privatization In The United States And The United Kingdom, David Pozen

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This article traces the recent history and development of privately operated prisons in the United States and the United Kingdom, and it compares their current role in the countries' correctional systems. The privatization movements of the U.S. and the U.K. were driven by similar factors, but the relative weight of these factors varied between the two. In the U.S., legal pressures to alleviate prison overcrowding and fiscal incentives to contract out prison construction were stronger, while in the U.K. the ideological and political aims of the governing party exerted more influence in stimulating privatization. America's experience with private prisons in …