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| On the Agenda | | | Video Conference |  | | | Family Group Conferences | | | | Cost of Crime | | | | A Refuge for the Victims of Trafficking In Women | | | | Vehicle Confiscation | | | | Automatic Electronic Enforcement Project | | | | Electronic Monitoring | |  | Prison Privatization | | | | Security On Public Transportation | | | | Israel-USA cooperation | | | | "City without Violence" Program | | | | Policing high school studies | | | | Prison Space Forecast in Israel | | | | Victims of Crime Services | |
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| The Process of Putting a Private Prison out to Tender |
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Threshold Criteria for Preliminary Classification of Bidders
A threshold criterion was set at the preliminary classification stage requiring every bidder to include in his group an architect with experience of having designed at least five prisons, each of at least 400 cell-place capacity, at least two of which had been built within the last seven years. Further conditions were:
- Each bidder or his sub-contractor had to have recent experience in operating at least two 300-inmate prisons;
- Each bidder had to demonstrate a sound financial position over recent years.
The Tender’s Basic Terms
Inmate Population
The private prison would house inmates of low security rating (granted regular leave periods) and would receive no problematic inmate groups such as women, minors, Palestinian security prisoners or high-risk groups, e.g., those requiring special supervision or needing to be housed separately, those rated of as high escape or suicide potential, the chronically sick requiring constant monitoring or treatment (e.g., dialysis patients), those infected with epidemic diseases, such as AIDS.
The Technical Specifications Laid Down by the Tender
The tender covers a wide spectrum of aspects of prison life
- Physical incarceration conditions, the level of services and prisoners’ rights
- Care and rehabilitation of prisoners
- The facility’s level of security and safety
The tender documentation defines dozens of areas of prison life to which each bid had to refer relate to and with the special demand of the strictest respect for the prisoners’ rights was demanded — care and rehabilitation, education, medical care and treatment, social contacts, physical cell conditions, and more.
Drawing on the experience of other private prisons around the world, the tender set out precise and quantifiable minimum performance standards and mandatory operating procedures, so as both to provide the concessionaire an unmistakable and practical template for his operation of the prison and to furnish the inspection team clear supervision mechanisms and success indicators. |
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