Inside private prisons: an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration 9780231542319, 9780231179706, 0231179707

"When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in

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English Pages ix, 321 pages ; 24 cm Year 2018;2017

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Inside private prisons: an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration
 9780231542319, 9780231179706, 0231179707

Table of contents :
The prison buildup and the birth of private prisons --
How the government privatized --
Prisoners as commodities --
The prison-industrial complex --
Private prisons and the American heartland --
The prison divestment movement --
The politics of private prisons --
Public prisons vs. private prisons --
Wrestling with the concept of private prisons --
Shadow prisons : inside private immigrant detention centers --
The future of private prisons.

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