Do Private Prisons Work?

Private Prisons in the United States

Sentencing Project, 2021

The Relationship Between Individual Characteristics, Quality of Confinement and Recidivism by Offenders Released From Privately and Publicly Managed Residential Community Corrections Facilities

Hummer, Don, 2018

Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism

Mukherjee, Anita, 2017

U.S. private prison population has declined in recent years

Abigail Geiger, 2017

The Economics of Private Prisons

Megan Mumford, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Ryan Nunn, 2016

Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring of Contract Prisons

Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, 2016

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this review to examine how the BOP monitors these facilities. We also assessed whether contractor performance meets certain inmate safety and security requirements and analyzed how contract prisons and similar BOP institutions compare with regard to inmate safety and security data.

The Future of Private Prisons in Arizona Corrections

Gilroy, Leonard, 2015

Annual Privatization Report 2014 Criminal Justice and Corrections

Galik, Lauren, Leonard Gilroy, and Alexander Volokh, 2014

International Growth Trends in Prison Privatization

Mason, Cody, The Sentencing Project, 2013

"This report looks at the increasing use of for-profit prison privatization around the world."