Contracting for Imprisonment in the Federal Prison System: Cost & Performance of the Privately Operated Taft Correctional Institution
October 1, 2005 Contracting for Imprisonment in the Federal Prison System: Cost & Performance of the Privately Operated Taft Correctional Institution This study examines the performance of the Taft Correctional Institution (TCI) over a six and one-half year period, from 1998 through March, 2004.In 1997, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) signed a contract with the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (now The GEO Group) to manage and operate TCI, a new government-owned low-security correctional facility in Taft, California, designed to hold a total of 2,048 adult male inmates. This study compares the cost of contracting . . .
