Description
Book SynopsisLauren-Brooke Eisen blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America.
Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, offering a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens.
Trade ReviewLauren-Brooke Eisen illuminates the history of private prisons and their place in the current environment and the future of mass incarceration in America-which we are trying to minimize. She incorporates individual interviews with a collation of quantitative data to strike a balance between fine detail and the big picture of the complex and still-evolving discourse of private corrections; a vital discussion for the future of our criminal justice and immigration policies. -- Ernest Drucker, author of A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Prison Buildup and the Birth of Private Prisons
2. How the Government Privatized
3. Prisoners as Commodities
4. The Prison Industrial Complex
5. Private Prisons and the American Heartland
6. The Prison Divestment Movement
7. The Politics of Private Prisons
8. Shadow Prisons: Inside Private Immigrant Detention Centers
9. Public Prisons Versus Private Prisons
10. Wrestling with the Concept of Private Prisons
11. The Future of Private Prisons
Conclusion
Notes
Index
