| Description |
xviii, 323 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-323). |
| Contents |
The political economy of prisons -- Banking on the prison boom / Judith Greene -- Million-dollar blocks: the neighborhood costs of America's prison boom / Jennifer Gonnerman -- Doing borrowed time: the high cost of backdoor prison finance / Kevin Pranis -- Making the "bad guy" pay: growing use of cost shifting as an economic sanction / Kirsten D. Levingston -- Prisons, politics, and the census / Gary Hunter and Peter Wagner -- Don't build it here: the hype versus the reality of prisons and local employment / Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter B. Wood -- Cultural commodification of prisons / Paul Wright -- The private prison industry -- Prison labor fuels American war machine / Ian Urbina -- On the inside with the American Correctional Association / Silja J.A. Talvi -- Jails for Jesus / Samantha M. Shapiro -- Florida's private prison industry corporation under siege / David M. Reutter -- Making out like bandits -- Behind closed doors: privatized prisons for youth / Tara Herivel -- Sick on the inside: correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague / Wil S. Hylton -- Private health care in jails can be a death sentence / Paul von Zielbauer -- Riot academy: guards stage mock prison riots to test the latest high-tech gear / Jennifer Gonnerman -- Mapping the prison telephone industry / Stevn J. Jackson -- Shocked and stunned: the growing use of tasers / Anne-Marie Cusac -- For-profit transportation companies: taking prisoners and the public for a ride / Alex Friedmann. |
| Subject |
Prison industries -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
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Corrections -- Contracting out -- United States.
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Imprisonment -- United States -- Finance.
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| Added Author |
Herivel, Tara.
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Wright, Paul, 1965-
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| ISBN |
1595581677 |
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9781595581679 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000042186105 |
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