In order to remain competitive, they need to do as much as possible in the cheapest locations possible without loss of quality.

ECONOMIST: How Britain gains from offshoring

In Britain past experiments at two high-security jails, Barlinnie, near Glasgow, and Parkhurst, on the Isle of Wight, have shown that it is possible to have regimes which give prisoners more time out of cells without loss of security.

ECONOMIST: Prisons