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Could performance-based funding improve outcomes of incarceration in Texas?

Several states in the country, including Arizona and Oklahoma, have considered legislation to change the incentives of private prison contracts to better align with the desired outcomes of incarceration in the United States.  While private prisons only hold about 8 percent of the total prison population in the United States, they have come under public and legislative scrutiny for a myriad of issues including inmate care, safety, understaffing, performance, and misaligned incentives.  Texas is not immune from these controversies.

The Texas Dispatch · Sep 18, 2024