Description
Book SynopsisProvides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system.
Trade ReviewA well written memoir and expose of life inside a privately owned correctional facility. The author does an excellent job at depicting what it is really like inside and the dangerous and harrowing experience for individuals incarcerated in these types of environments. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, co-author of Convict Criminology
Something changed in me. The flame was going out. After about twenty years of doing time, I felt like I did when I first came to prison: afraid, mean, not caring about others. I don't know if I hated them more, or myself for letting them change me. * Prison, Inc. *
This is the story of what happens when politicians 'out source' their state prisoners to corporations. Convicts become commodities incarcerated in overcrowded private facilities with few programs and staff. Like & boot camps, & three strikes, and so called & truth in sentencing, private prisons are another expensive failure. Meanwhile, the prisoners live day-to-day wondering what new nightmare they will have to endure. -- Stephen C. Richards,co-author of Behind Bars: Surviving Prison
It helps fill in the eclipse of prison ethnography in the current age of mass incarceration . . . It should be in every library in the United States. * Criminal Justice Review *
Table of ContentsForewordThomas J. BernardAcknowledgments Part I Welcome to Enterprise1 The Politics of Enterprise Prison 2 Orientation 3 New Prison Problems Part II Guerrilla Warfare4 Wild Wild West 5 Beat Down Crew 6 The Zoo Part III My Tour7 Caught Up 8 The Other Enemy 9 Gang Related 10 Seg Time Part IV An Exercise in Futility11 Riot 12 Lockdown 13 Aftermath Part V Taking Control14 The Masters15 The Servants 16 The Power Part VI Analysis17 Factors Contributing to Violence and Its Control Notes GlossaryAbout the Author and the Editor
