But unlike the NRA, companies like Wackenhut and the Bobby Ross Group have direct power over prisoners' lives. Marc Mauer, of the Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project warns that the profit incentive for private prison companies could lengthen prisoners' stays. A critical issue is accountability. You can imagine someone coming up for probation. The tendency of a private prison will be not to release them.
Inmates can appeal disciplinary actions to a public board.
Companies serving the corrections industry need an ample quantity of raw material to ensure long-term growth Since that raw material is prisoners, the industry will do whatever it can to guarantee a steady supply. In his state of the state address Governor Cayetano insisted that a new prison in Hawaii must not be run by government workers. If you want a prison in Hawaii then give me the authority to not only select a site but to fully privatize the operation and maintenance of that prison. I think he's basing it on nonsense without having the facts to support it. Rodrigues represents the state's 3-thousand adult corrections officers or ACOs, whom he says are not to blame for the high cost of operating prisons in Hawaii.