Competition for prisons : public or private? / Julian Le Vay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Vay, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Prisons.

Prisons--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Prisons--Privatization--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book re-assesses the benefits and failures of competition, how public and private prisons compare, the impact of competition on the public sector's performance, and how well government has managed this 'quasi-market'.

Contents:

COMPETITION FOR PRISONS; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; List of acronyms; Preface; 1. Origins; Prologue; The state of the prisons; Preparing the ground; The route to legislation; 2. Evolution; 1992-97: establishing a viable market; 1997-2000: Labour and the PFI boom; The 2000s: drift and indecision; 2010-15: Coalition government: the end of competition?; 3. Related markets: immigration - two sectors, no competition; A strange silence; Development of the immigration detention estate; A perfect market?; Comparing sectors; Conclusion; 4. Youth custody; Background

1993-97 Conservative government and Secure Training Centres1997 onwards: Labour, expansion of the private sector and creation of the Youth Justice Board; Managing rising, then falling, demand; 2010 Coalition government; Competition?; Conclusion; 5. Related markets: electronic monitoring - fall of the giants; The fall; What did the contractors do wrong?; Why did they behave like this?; Impact; The untold half of the story; Why are these questions not being asked?; Non-barking watchdogs; So who is to blame?; 6. The quasi-market: characteristics and operation; Quasi-markets in public services

Scope and size of the quasi-marketThe customer; Government's dual role: customer and competitor; Private sector view of government as customer; The private sector suppliers; Operation of the quasi-market; Conclusions; 7. Comparing public and contracted prisons; 8. Comparing quality of service; Methodological and data issues; Home Office studies of four 'management only' contracted prisons; National Audit Office study of the operational performance of PFI prisons; HM Inspectorate ratings; Statistical analysis by HMIP (2009); NOMS Prison Rating System (PRS); The Cambridge research

Comparison of quality at male local prisonsPrisons in trouble; Financial penalties; Conclusions; Four prisons in trouble; 9. Costing the uncostable? Civil Service pensions; The elephant in the room; The question; The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme; Benchmarks; Does it really matter?; Conclusions; 10. Costing the uncostable? PFI; PFI in prisons; Criticisms of PSCs; Length of PFI contracts and value for money; Comparison with PFI in other services; The Mouchel study; Thameside PFI; The end of PFI; Conclusions; 11. Comparing cost; Some general issues about comparing costs

'Management only' contracts (new builds)Market tests; PFIs versus PSCs: the data; Construction: cost and speed; Structure of the difference in operational cost between sectors; Cost versus quality; Can the public sector match private sector costs?; Conclusions; 12. Impact of competition on the public sector; 1990: the Prison Service as basket case; Extent of improvement 1990-2010; What drove this improvement?; Scotland revisited; Innovation; Innovation in the contracted sector; Innovation in the public sector; Barriers to innovation; Conclusions; 13. Objections of principle

Bad in principle, or bad in practice?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447313243

1447313240

9781447313236

1447313232

OCLC:

964355950