The article goes on to mention that private prisons often don’t have guards armed with guns and because the private prison guards are not true law officers they are much more limited in scope in what they can enforce and perform. This combined with the fact that privatizes prisons actually tend to pay prison guards a lower per hour wage makes it even more of a liability for people employed as private prison guards.

My own opinion is that when it comes to dangerous criminals there should not be anything but a government law agency involved, in my own right I don’t feel it is the right decision to turn over any law enforcement agencies to private corporations. I feel the same with the military hiring Blackwater Security forces for overseas assignments as well. The bottom line is people become trained in law enforcement and are bound by state and government laws and private corporations just are interested in keeping costs operational so they have a profit, if the private prison goes bankrupt we could be in serious trouble. The same holds true if a private prison were to cut safety protocols and procedures in the name of cutting costs and saving money.

It is a serious breach of security to start allowing maximum security prisons to become privatized in Arizona, and as a citizen of Arizona I fear this will only cause an increase in crime both within prison walls and outside prison walls.

-Justin Germino

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