There are only two parts of the American criminal justice system that haven’t succumbed to privatization, according to research released on Thursday by In the Public Interest: the police and the courts. Everything else – including transportation, probation, food, electronic monitoring, psychiatric and drug treatment and fine collection – has been privatized somewhere in the country.
We’ve farmed out so many correctional services to private corporations that criminal justice is no longer a government function.
The stories about how private corporations cut corners in prisons in order to maintain their profit margins are horrendous and, unfortunately, have become commonplace in public discourse – especially in the past year.
[For more of this story, written by Chandra Bozelko, go to http://www.theguardian.com/com...form-chandra-bozelko]
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