NCJ Number
196267
Journal
Punishment & Society Volume: 4 Issue: 3 Dated: July 2002 Pages: 285-303
Editor(s)
Alison Leibling,
Richard Sparks
Date Published
July 2002
Length
19 pages
Annotation
The article describes the management and operations of Her Majesesty's Prison Dovegate, a privately managed U.K. prison and explores the prison’s therapeutic community programs.
Abstract
The author explores the privatization operations at Her Majesty’s Prison, Dovegate. The prison provides multiple programs including a therapeutic community program for 200 prisoners. The article re-examines the traditionally held view that privatized prisons cannot fulfill the rehabilitative role of corrections and that the use of privatized prisons is an acceptance of the marginalization of rehabilitation in modern corrections. The author sets out principles for the review of private rehabilitative offerings, including legitimacy, accountability, and transparency of operations. The article also includes a historical review of the growth of privatization of prisons and also the rise of the discourse concerning the ideological objections to the practice including reviews of the works of Sparks (1994), Harding (1997), and Moyle (2001) among others. 49 references