 should the michigan legislature pass legislation that would allow for the privatization of michigan prisons  yes no undecided privatization in state prisons i worked on this issue extensively nationwide during the 1990s and if the bias of entrenched unions and entrenched state officials who are preservationists for the status quo can be addressed as well as privatized corrections company integrity then privatization will work just like the dric bridge subject government always wants more control michigan had an 800000000 budget for corrections when i first began working on that budget corrections spending has grown 538 in the last 34 years in 2008 it was 2 billion bucks annually 2012 yikes the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting new results we must be inovative alternative sentencing and community corrections has not reached its potential in michigan pa 511 is under utilized  privatizing the prisons my husband is a prison guard and yes i want him to keep his job if you want to pay them 10 hr that s exactly the kind of people you will get there are some jobs best left to professionals and corrections is one of them  