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Public and Private Prisons Compared - 2000

The Criminal Justice Institute recently released its 2000 edition of The Corrections Yearbook. Fifty six privately operated facilities responded to the 2000 questionnaire, representing a total of 25,216 prisoners. The following table shows how the privately operated prisons compared to publicly operated prisons in selected categories:

  PUBLIC PRIVATE
CO ENTRY LEVEL SALARY (AVERAGE) $23,002 $17,628
CO MAX LEVEL SALARY (AVERAGE) $36,328 $22,082
CO TURNOVER RATE (AVERAGE) 16% 52.2%
PRE-SERVICE CO TRAINING (HOURS) 250 153

  
 
  
   
   

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