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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Main Author: | Eisen, Lauren-Brooke (Author) |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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