Part 2  PFI prisons span the range of public prison performance

This part of the report assesses the relative performance of the seven PFI prisons against 12 public sector prisons and the two privately-managed prisons. Such a comparison is complicated by the different ways private and publicly-managed prisons are measured but there are some common qualitative and quantitative indicators which we supplemented with our own research. Although the results need to be considered in the context of the structural differences between the two sectors, they demonstrate that the performance of PFI prisons spans the whole range of public prison performance.