Correction, Accreditation, and Privatization CJS/230

Correction, Accreditation, and Privatization
Accreditation is seeking comparable work status for organizations, which are seeking employees. The Commission on Accreditation in Corrections developed in 1978. This program offers public as well as private companies that are performing correctional functions a way to evaluate their operations by a national standard, which offers a way to fix deficiencies and shortcomings. It helps by raising the quality of correctional programs and services. This affects the professional development of correctional officers by improving management, giving a defense against lawsuits, an effort to improve the conditions of inmates, more accountability and public credibility for administration and prison staff, a safer and better environment for offenders and correctional workers, and establishing criteria that helps better employees, programs and the physical structure on a regular basis.
Privatization as it relates to prisons occurred because of the growth in the prison systems in the last 25 years. Privatization can allow new prisons to open faster, it can achieve economics in the area of costs, it frees up limited resources from the government to use for other priorities, it helps achieve economics in operational costs, provides improvement of services, cuts the cost of operating prisons, offers new programs for prisoners easier than with the government, and are held more accountable than government operations. The number so state prisoners in private prisons have declined over the past five years by about 10,000. Only the rapid increase of federal inmates in private prisons has allowed private prisons to maintain no more than 120, 000 inmates. The longer private prisons are in operation, the