Inside private prisons : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration /

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. By the twenty-first century, more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eisen, Lauren-Brooke (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Prisons > United States.
Privatization > United States.
Corrections > Contracting out > United States.
Prisons > États-Unis.
Privatisation > États-Unis.
Services correctionnels > Impartition > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections > Contracting out
Prisons
Privatization
United States
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