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The public sector needs to monitor the performance of the private prisons, and it is necessary to conduct the monitoring as objectively as possible. This »tide demonstrates thru an often overlooked source of data, surveys of inmates, can be used to differentiate prisons on such areas as gang activity, safety and security, sanitation, and food service delivery. Hierarchical linear models were used to generate the prison performance measures. We also show that inmates and staff largely agreed in their assessments of conditions at the prison. Finally, we demonstrate that, although there is considerable consistency for different measures within the topical areas that we examined, there is no necessary correspondence in performance across the different topical areas of gang management, safety and security, sanitation, and food service delivery. Although surveys will never and should never replace operational reviews and audits, we demonstrate that they can be effectively used to obtain information about operational differences between prisons.