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Language: en
Pages: 476
Pages: 476
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilitie
Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-11 - Publisher: Penguin
An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Book
Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned "war on drugs," incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, cor
Language: en
Pages: 148
Pages: 148
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
The purpose of The History and Politics of Private Prisons in America is to examine the history of the movement, establish how politics affects it, and provide
Language: en
Pages: 267
Pages: 267
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: NYU Press
This is a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. Privatisation is seen as a necessary and co