Is a Public Employee’s Union in California raising the cost of the prison system? Should the prisons be sold to private companies to save the states money?
In my last post, I explored the movement across the country to privatize the prison systems in many states. We looked at the high cost of maintaining prisons and one of …
There has been talk about states selling their prison systems to private companies and allowing them to run the correctional system. Is this a good idea?
At first, it looks great: the taxpayers can reduce the high cost of building, maintaining, guarding, providing medical care, and programming for offenders. Why not let a private company take-over the costs? …
With all the national discussion about Public Employees, should we cut back on them?
Before you decide, I’ve got a short story to tell.
I have to disclose from the beginning that I am a public employee and anything I post in this blog is my own opinion and not that of any employer.
Several years ago, …
I recently blogged about the sky-rocketing population in our nation’s prisons, reminding people that the United States imprisons more people that even Russia and Iran. Check out the article in The Economist at http://www.economist.com/node/16636027/print.
There are two reasons for this surge in prison population and the resulting surge in costs to the government for housing all these people.…
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