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Inside Private Prisons : An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration / Lauren-Brooke Eisen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231179706
  • 9780231542319
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9469 .E57 2018
  • HV9469 .E57 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one The Prison Buildup and the Birth of Private Prisons -- Chapter two How the Government Privatized -- Chapter three Prisoners as Commodities -- Chapter four The Prison Industrial Complex -- Chapter five Private Prisons and the American Heartland -- Chapter six The Prison Divestment Movement -- Chapter seven The Politics of Private Prisons -- Chapter eight Shadow Prisons: Inside Private Immigrant Detention Centers -- Chapter nine Public Prisons Versus Private Prisons -- Chapter ten Wrestling with the Concept of Private Prisons -- Chapter eleven The Future of Private Prisons -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Summary: When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration-to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen's work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America.From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America's largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one The Prison Buildup and the Birth of Private Prisons -- Chapter two How the Government Privatized -- Chapter three Prisoners as Commodities -- Chapter four The Prison Industrial Complex -- Chapter five Private Prisons and the American Heartland -- Chapter six The Prison Divestment Movement -- Chapter seven The Politics of Private Prisons -- Chapter eight Shadow Prisons: Inside Private Immigrant Detention Centers -- Chapter nine Public Prisons Versus Private Prisons -- Chapter ten Wrestling with the Concept of Private Prisons -- Chapter eleven The Future of Private Prisons -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration-to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen's work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America.From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America's largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)