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Prison Privatization Articles & Opinions

Are you passionate about prison privatization?

As a corrections officer, do you have a strongly held opinion on the topic of government contracting with private corporations to operate correctional facilities?

As an AOCE member, this is the place to make your opinion known!

The Association of Oregon Corrections Employees has created this page to give you, the AOCE members, a place to voice your opinions on this topic.

All we ask is that you make your opinion respectful and professionally worded.

And if you would like to comment on the opinions left by others, you can do that also.

The movement to privatize Oregon's prisons is a very sensitive topic to some people. Our jobs are not all that is at stake. Perhaps the most important issues related to this topic are safety and security of the general public.

To help you organize your opinions on this topic, Click Here for a list of pros & cons on prison privatization.

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As a Correctional Officer for the state of Arizona, I worked with both offenders and staff who had spent time in a private prison. Arizona, which is ...

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Will the private contractors hold the same qualifications as a state certified officer does?
If not, then how is a minimum wage officer held accountable ...

Private prisons cut corners during normal operation, but spit polish the floor when the ACA comes in.  Not rated yet

I first worked corrections in a private prison in a little town on the edge of the Kansas-Colorado border called Burlington.

In the beginning I was ...


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