Until recently, advocates of correctional privatization had little to support their claims in support of privatization. However, jurisdictions across the United States as well as Australia and the United Kingdom have learned that properly sophisticated privatization initiatives can and do produce an array of benefits that include but are not limited to significant construction and operating cost savings as well as the delivery of correctional services of a quality at least equal to those provided by government agencies in contracting jurisdictions. Therefore, correctional policymakers should promote correctional privatization whenever doing so is appropriate and should recognize that the scope of what deserves to be viewed as appropriate is quite broad. Footnotes and tables