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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Selman, Donna, 1967-
Other Authors: Leighton, Paul, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Prisons > États-Unis.
Privatisation > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections > Contracting out.
Prisons.
Privatization.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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