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Contracting for Success: Improving Performance in Corrections
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Apr. 12, 2007
ANNOTATION: Accountability measures for privately contracted facilities are explained. Sections of this publication include: introduction; benefits of competition; accountability and performance tools -- the contract or agreement directs performance, monitoring provides essential oversight, data is collected and publicly available, performance-based budgeting and contracting, and staff performance evaluation systems create an important linkage; programs need to be outcome - or performance-based; correctional systems need to focus on what works; shifting the paradigm; and conclusion.