Interesting piece on private prisons. What if all jails were privatized? What if we privatized the whole supply chain starting at the initial processing? In other words, excluding the law enforcement piece, privatize the formal booking, receiving and handling of the suspect / felon. What else?
- Offer incentives / bonuses to the most innovative behavioral corrections and for the most innovative and long-term rehabilitative programs.
- Increase competition among private correctional facilities thus reducing overall cost to the city government.
- Reduce overall city payroll budgets to close widespread gaps; if you’re not on the street doing actual law enforcement, e.g. administrative, secretarial, monitoring, why hire cops?
- You could hire ex-military so they can stop going back to the Middle East as private security contractors and put them to work here at home.
