Rhetoric

While privatization of the criminal justice system is often regarded as bad due to the private prisons cutting costs to maximize profit, leading to low quality of life and safety for inmates, studies show that this is not always the case. In the below excerpt from a document prepared by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and published by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, studies are shown that evaluate various levels of inmate quality of life in several state, federal, and private prisons, in which a lot of the findings prove either an indistinguishability or an improvement in the aforementioned aspects when comparing private facilities to their state and federal counterparts.