Private prisons have become an integral part of the penal system in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. There already are over 100 such prison
Gaes and his distinguished co-authors offer a comprehensive analysis of public vs. private management of prisons, a competition that originated with the introdu
This report discusses the findings of a nationwide study on the use of private prisons in the United States. The number of these prisons grew enormously between
The purpose of The History and Politics of Private Prisons in America is to examine the history of the movement, establish how politics affects it, and provide
With more than one million people behind bars, the United States imprisons a larger share of its population than any other industrialized nation. This has preci