Author: Blumstein, James F.
Title: Do Government Agencies Respond to Market Pressures? Evidence from Private Prisons
Summary: This paper examined the role of privatization on the cost of government-provided services. It examined data on the cost of housing public and private prisoners from all 50 states over the time period 1996-2004, and found that the existence of private prisons in a state reduces the growth in per prisoner expenditures by public prisons by a statistically significant amount.
Details: Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 03-16; Vanderbilt Public Law Review Paper No. 03-05, December 2007. 39p.
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Year: 2007
Country: United States
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Shelf Number: 114351
Keywords:
Private Prisons - PrisonersPrivatization |
