Pros And Cons Of Correctional Institutions

In the discussion of Correctional Institutions, we often think of Institutions that are maintained by the government where law breakers spend their years away from the rest of the society. This is a right thought of corrections but not too many people know that there are multiple different types of Correctional Institution and that all of them have different objectives. Some of these Institutions are: “Detention camps”, “Jails”, “Penal facilities”, “Penitentiaries”, “Prisons” and “Reform schools” (thefreedictionary.com). Also, not many people know the demographics of an average inmate in our Correction Institutions, which is an important factor since this is something on which is based the suspicions of the regular stops and arrests in

Correctional Institutions aren’t an exception. One of the biggest con of having all these institutions is the fact that our educational system is receiving less money than the Correctional system. According to the data, CNN posted an average cost per student in New York is less than $20,000 when on the inmate the government spends almost $60,000 to maintain (http://money.cnn.com/). This lead to the question. Is having a correctional system really worth? Since the inmate receive a bit over 60% more money than a student. Nowadays more and more often we see Correctional Institution being privatized. According to “An Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Prison Privatization” over 65 Correctional Institutions are privatized already since 1984 when the First Institution was privatized (An Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Prison Privatization, Elaine Rizzo 2012). You might say well what’s the big deal with that? The big deal with that is that the owners of this privatized Institutions have a revenue of over $2.9 billion. But at the same time the wages and the benefit cost of labor is lowered (An Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Prison Privatization, Elaine Rizzo 2012). In other words people are getting paid less there, which reduces the job’s availability for people who come out of college and expect to get paid more than the minimum but in reality it turns out they wasted their years and money on college for nothing since they are getting paid almost the same amount as people without a degree. Another con of having Privatized prisons is that it negatively impacts the treatment, rehabilitation and the care of prisoners due to the for-profit motivations. Since Private prisons are looking for profit, they work to reduce cost whenever they can and wherever they can, which leads to safety risks and inadequate delivery of service. Having Correctional