RUNNING HEAD: Privatizing Prisons Thompson – 1
Privatization of America’s Prisons:
Outsourcing the Rehabilitation at the Expense of Increased Recidivism
English 123: Composition II (X1574)
Elbert Thompson
Southern New Hampshire University
The United States currently houses more than 2.3 million people in its jails and
prisons (Wagner & Rabuy, 2016). While the responsibility for determining how best to
balance the need to punish with the need to prepare the inmate for re-entry to society has
