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October 07, 2009 05:59 AM UTC
10 Comments
Senator Carroll has done a solid job of criticizing the sky-rocketing costs in corrections
That said – does she plan on doing something to stop prison builders, like the Cornell Group PAC and Cornell Employees PAC, from contributing to Colorado political candidates?
No cheek. the privatization of corrections is an important issue that few talk about.
You do understand that Tabor and limitations on debt drive part of our justice problem. Since we can’t afford to build prisons we are forced to house prisoners in private facilities at a higher cost since we can’t build the public infrastructure.
I’m not sure I understand your statement about costs Danny.
Colorado pays less to house prisoners at private prisons (appx $53/day) than they do in DOC (appx. $78/day).
its in the recidivism.
Private prisons are designed to drive repeat customers. Buffy has some good data on this (I don’t keep it at the top of my mind-not “my” issue)
You are correct that it appears cheaper on a cash basis, but the long term costs are different. The problem with Tabor and our debt ban is that it prevents us from taking long term costs in to account when designing public policy.
Although we could argue that the recidivism rate for DOC also could be interpreted as encouraging repeat offenders.
The issue isn’t private prisons, the issue is there aren’t services to reduce the chances of recidivism upon release.
Parsing the argument, though. Thanks for the clarification.
If she could construct a system from scratch what would it look like?
What core values is the ideal based on and how do we reform the current system to make it more like the ideal she would construct from scratch?
I would like to see the legislature seriously take this on. Please ask her about her stance on this.