ABSTRACT
Chapter 16 is by Marietta Martinovic, Marg Liddell and David Daley and is entitled ‘Privatrisation in criminal justice in Australia. The authors say Australia has embraced privatisation of its prisons with almost 20% of its prisoners in private prisons (The Productivity Commission, 2019). To date, there is no conclusive evidence that privatisation of prisons has had a dramatic effect on the way the industry operates or its effectiveness. Over the years there have been three prisons which were inadequately managed by the private sector and were taken back by the public sector and put under public management. An innovative experiment that could change the landscape of offerings in the public and private prison sector in Australia is Ravenhall Correctional Centre – first private prison operated on a payments by results model.
