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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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| A Survey of Prison Privatization around the World |
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Worldwide, there are three main models for incorporating the private sector into prison operation and management:
The French model is a partial privatization — the entrepreneur
builds the facility and provides logistical and prisoner welfare support services (maintenance, food, clothing, etc.) while leaving security and prison management in the hands of the state.
The British model — is the way of almost full privatization, the entrepreneur constructs and operates all systems, including bearing responsibility for the fulfillment of prisoners’ rights. The state retains supervision and control by placing in every privately-run facility a comptroller or team of comptrollers who alone exercise the authority to judge and punish prisoners.
The American model — is total privatization, delegating to the entrepreneur even the power to discipline and punish inmates.
The model selected by Israel is — the British model.
Around the world now there are more than two hundred privately-run prisons, housing a total population of over 150,000 inmates.
England: of England’s 138 prisons, 12 are already operated by the private sector or are under construction and most of them maintain the highest standards of living conditions, prisoner care, rehabilitation, and so on. The Comptroller and Auditor General states in the Annual Report for 2003, that with one exception, privately financed prisons perform well comparable to public prisons. Furthermore, the best private prisons are better than comparable public prison across a range of indicators. The national Comptroller-General’s report for 2003 ranked all but one of the private prisons ‘excellent’ and the best of their category in the country. In the last decade England has built only privately-run facilities, whereas Scotland has built one publicly-run facility, as well as three private ones.
United States: has 160 privately-run correctional facilities housing some 120,000 inmates. Thirty US states have legislation permitting the private sector to build and operate prison facilities.
Elsewhere in the World
South Africa — 6,000 cell places are under private management;
Peru — has plans to build 10,000 privately-run cell places;
Australia — some 20% of its prison population are housed in 12 privately-run facilities;
France — already has 21 privately-run facilities and has issued tenders for a further 13,000 cell places. |
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