Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
✍ Scribed by Eisen, Lauren-Brooke
- Book ID
- 109740300
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 850 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780231542319
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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...