All Rights Reserved. The Correction Administration finally has more beds than inmates, but some are not where they are most needed. Lock 'em up and throw away the key. Faced with rising crime, governors and legislators have applied that policy sternly in recent years.
Voters support it.
But what voters may not want to support is paying the piper, namely hundreds of millions of tax dollars that state corrections systems will use to house inmates during the next few years. One alternative is turning prison management over to private companies. CRA figures show it is cheaper to keep inmates in privately run prisons. Many Rossello administration reform initiatives have been aimed at privatizing public sector enterprises. The governor's policy has been that the government should not own businesses the private sector is willing to provide and can manage better.