Punishment for sale : private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge

Punishment for sale : private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge / Donna Selman and Paul Leighton.

"Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and...

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Main Author: Selman, Donna, 1967-
Other Authors: Leighton, Paul, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.
Series:Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:
Corrections > Contracting out > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Privatization > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections > Contracting out
Prisons
Privatization
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • America's incarceration binge : the expansion of prisons, budgets, and injustice
  • The big government "problem" and the Kentucky fried prison "solution"
  • The prison-industrial complex : profits, vested interests, and politics
  • Confronting problems : blame prisoners and contracts, then get a bailout
  • A critical look at the efficiency and overhead costs of private prisons
  • Conclusion : back to the future.

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