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Change Your Prison, Change Your Outcomes, Change Your Community

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UK prisons have a very poor record in preventing reoffending. This paper attempts to identify a desirable kind of prison system. It discusses privatisation and payment-by-results programmes. Novel suggestions include the potential for charity-, faith- or community-based organisations to run prisons, and a possible voucher scheme for use by prisoners.

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  • Guy Opperman, 2014. "Change Your Prison, Change Your Outcomes, Change Your Community," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(2), pages 224-234, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecaffa:v:34:y:2014:i:2:p:224-234
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    1. Richard J. Kish & Amy F. Lipton, 2013. "Do Private Prisons Really offer Savings Compared with their Public Counterparts?," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(1), pages 93-107, February.
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