To me the only sensible way to judge privatization is to look at the incentives that are created.<p>Prisons - If we assume the corporation profit comes from prisoner rent, the private corporation is incentivized to encourage more prisoners and longer sentences.<p>Im not convinced that is a healthy incentive, and the evidence seems to show it is not.<p>School privatization - Where does the profit come?  if it is based on children&#x2F;hour then the corporation is incentivized to have more people attending school for longer periods.<p>that again sounds like a problem to me - you COULD achieve it in positive ways, but you could also achieve it by not teaching anyone anything....or by teaching at a slower rate...<p>Hospital privatization - This just sounds like a total cluster fuck to me, assuming the corporation makes its profit from rent&#x2F;medical treatment then the incentives are there to keep patients as long as possible and undergoing as much treatment as possible, while actually curing as few problem as possible...<p>Some things, are just not meant to be privatized IMO.