Corrections In America Chapter 13 Summary

In chapter 13 of Corrections in America, the author describes the history of private-sector involvement in corrections and identifies its advantages. The author also describes how prison inmates were considered slaves of the state. Overall, this chapter compares gatekeepers and rainmakers. A private sector correctional facility is any prison, for-profit prison, detention center, is a facility in which juveniles and adults are physically restricted, housed, or interned by a nongovernmental organization which is constructed by a public-sector government agency. Most of the correctional services and agencies before 1980 involved private sector providers. It provided services ranging from training and education to medical care and food to probation and parole services. From the time of John Augustus, most of the juvenile and adult halfway houses were provided by private for profit, private nonprofit, or charitable organizations. Due to the overcrowding of jails, many entrepreneurs in the private and private nonprofit sectors have become in the boom industry. The main advantage of private service providers is their ability to expand and contract quickly when it needs a change. In addition, the entrepreneurs can choose to modify an existing facility instead of starting from the ground. Other advantages

In other words, inmates were compelled to obey correctional managers and their staff. Inmates were put to work building roads, railroads, and even manufacturing wagons, shoes, and boots. In order for the contractors to protect their profit margins, they would transport inmates in rolling cages, where they lived. This way, the state would make a profit and could actually avoid the cost of building additional facilities, hiring correctional staff, feeding and clothing inmates, and assuming care. In reality, prisons became attractive profit