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

✍ Scribed by Selman, Donna; PAUL LEIGHTON

Book ID: 100232959
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 1006 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1282480618

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✦ Synopsis

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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