What is the role of private prisons today? What will be the state of private prisons two or three decades from now?

What will be an ideal response?


• Privately run correctional facilities, or private prisons, have grown in number over the past few decades as the movement toward the privatization of correctional facilities has gained steam. Private prisons, operated by for-profit corporations, hold inmates on behalf of state governments or the federal government and provide for inmates' care and security. A number of questions remain as to the role such facilities will play in the future, including whether they can be cost-effective and whether they can somehow reduce the legal liability of state governments and government employees.

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Fill in the blank with correct word.

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a. True b. False

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What will be an ideal response?

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a. True b. False

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