Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/us/19prisons.html?_r=2
"The conviction that private prisons save money helped drive more than 30 states to turn to them for housing inmates. But Arizona shows that popular wisdom might be wrong: Data there suggest that privately operated prisons can cost more to operate than state-run prisons even though they often steer clear of the sickest, costliest inmates."
So they cherry pick the easy cheaper inmates and still cost the same or more than the state that has to handle the sick and more costly ones.
Same BS as when you hear people say hires contractors to replace gov workers. Same problem, it ends up costing more and efficiency goes down.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/us/19prisons.html?_r=2
"The conviction that private prisons save money helped drive more than 30 states to turn to them for housing inmates. But Arizona shows that popular wisdom might be wrong: Data there suggest that privately operated prisons can cost more to operate than state-run prisons even though they often steer clear of the sickest, costliest inmates."
So they cherry pick the easy cheaper inmates and still cost the same or more than the state that has to handle the sick and more costly ones.
Same BS as when you hear people say hires contractors to replace gov workers. Same problem, it ends up costing more and efficiency goes down.