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Cost of Prisons: Bureau of Prisons Needs Better Data to Access Alternatives for Acquiring Low and Minimum Security Facilities
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Cost of Prisons: Bureau of Prisons Needs Better Data to Access Alternatives for Acquiring Low and Minimum Security Facilities
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 30, 2007
ANNOTATION: The inability of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to make a cost comparison analysis between BOP and private low and minimum security facilities is explained. This report contains the following sections: highlights (executive summary); results in brief; background; BOP lacks data needed to perform a methodologically sound cost comparison and is not positioned to evaluate alternatives for confining inmates in low and minimum security facilities; conclusions; agency comments and GAO evaluation.