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APCTO is the non-profit association which represents an increasingly broad array of correctional and treatment services offered throughout the United States and around the world. APCTO members include academics, non-profit as well as for-profit corporations, service providers, government officials, students, and individuals who are interested in innovative, cost-effective public private partnerships that today benefit more than 150,000 juveniles and adults under the supervision of correctional systems in the United States.
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As private correctional treatment providers we are partners with public officials to provide the full array of services, including programs that lead to rehabilitation and rebuilding lives...
In its short 20-year history in North America, the private corrections and treatment industry has helped bring down costs, improve quality, and increase accountability. Here is an example of how this important public-private partnership has produced these three key benefits.
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LESS COST
Taxpayers can enjoy significant savings by utilizing public-private correctional partnerships to design, finance, build, and operate prisons, jails, community corrections facilities, and juvenile justice programs. These savings are derived from a variety of benefits offered by privatization and are documented by numerous independent research studies.
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HIGH QUALITY SERVICE
Providing safe, secure, and humane care and custody for offenders is the most critical requirement of any public-private correctional partnership. Saving money at the expense of quality of service provides no value to the taxpayer. Many facts and independent studies document the high level of service provided by the private sector.
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INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY
Taxpayers, through local, state, and federal contracting agencies should demand the highest possible quality of operations at the lowest possible cost, and they should have recourse if standards are not met. Public-Private Correctional Partnerships ensure that the private operator of a particular facility is held accountable to a much higher degree than are publicly-operated facilities.
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