The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public versus Private Management

This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for‐profit, private nonprofit, public state‐operated, and public county‐operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed inform...

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description This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for‐profit, private nonprofit, public state‐operated, and public county‐operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional histories, judge‐assigned restrictiveness levels, and home zip codes—allowing us to control for the nonrandom assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for‐profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but relative to nonprofit and state‐operated facilities, for‐profit facilities operate at a lower cost to the government per comparable individual released. Cost‐benefit analysis implies that the short‐run savings offered by for‐profit over nonprofit management are negated in the long run due to increased recidivism rates, even if one measures the benefits of reducing criminal activity as only the avoided costs of additional confinement.
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Correlation analysis
Cost control
Criminal offenses
Detention centers
Effectiveness
Facilities management
Felony offenses
Juvenile courts
Juvenile detention centers
Juvenile offenders
Management
Minors
Nonprofit organizations
Organizational structure
Prisons
Recidivism
Studies
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