State vs. Private Prison
The United States prison system is designed to ensure that the members of society who have chosen to violate the law and commit crimes are suitably punished. Prisoners are sent away for a period of time based on the crime committed and the severity of that crime. Additional factors such as age, mental and emotional state, and motive may have a contribution to the sentencing of the prisoner. The prison system is comprised of both state-funded institutions and those run and controlled by private funding. Both forms of institutions serve the same inherent function, to punish those who have committed crimes and to rehabilitate the offenders so that they can be released back into society without posing a potential threat to other law-abiding citizens. Those who cannot be rehabilitated will either be executed by the state or sent to prison for a life sentence. However, there are differences between private and public penitentiaries, both in the implementation of punishment and in the reformation of criminals which differentiate the two types of prisons.
Privatization has become an important role in many aspects of prison life, both while the convicted individual is within prison and afterwards when they are on probation (Siegel 546). In the current economy, many states have had to shut down publicly-owned facilities...
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