CAN JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC-EFFICIENCY COEXIST PEACEFULLY - A LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF FURTHER PRIVATIZATION WITHIN THE CORRECTIONS INDUSTRY

Greater consideration of the privatization of previously public servic es is on the rise, both politically and in our social consciousness. S uch popularity has been the result of a number of interrelated factors , not the least of which is our increasingly anti-union, anti-governme nt, and anti-tax political climate. This climate has created fertile g round into which the seeds of privatization can be fairly easily sown. Whether these seeds actually grow or should grow depends on a number of factors, many of which have not been studied with enough depth to j ustify their cultivation.