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Eye On Boise: Privatize Prisons?

Posted by DFO

Feb. 19, 2009 9:44 a.m. • 0 comments

Senate Judiciary Chairman Denton Darrington, R-Declo, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations committee this morning, “I think there is a limit to how far we ought to go with our prison beds being in private hands.” Even big prison states like Texas are at about 35 percent private, Darrington said. “We’re in the 40s, and it’s going to creep up a little.” He warned, “If our prison population gets too high of a number in private hands, there are ways in which we will have less control over our own system, I have no doubt. So I would say that we’re about as far as we ought to go, on percent of our inmates in private hands. I have no problem with what we’ve done, but we’d better have a word of caution”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.

Question: Should the state of Idaho privatize prisons?

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