Prison Profiteers Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Name: Prison Profiteers Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
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ISBN: 9781595584540

ISBN-10: 1595584544

ISBN-13: 9781595584540

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Authors: Tara Herivel, Paul Wright

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In This eye-opening book, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" (Publishers Weekly). From investment banks and the makers of Taser stun guns to health care providers and the U.S. military, this network of perversely motivated interests has turned the imprisonment of one out of every 135 Americans into a lucrative business.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.20" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction




The Political Economy of Prisons


Banking on the Prison Boom



Million-Dollar Blocks: The Neighborhood Costs of America's Prison Boom



Doing Borrowed Time: The High Cost of Backdoor Prison Finance



Making the "Bad Guy" Pay: Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction



Prisons, Politics, and the Census



Don't Build It Here: The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment



The Cultural Commodification of Prisons




The Private Prison Industry


Prison Labor Fuels American War Machine



On the Inside with the American Correctional Association



Jails for Jesus



Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Under Siege




Making Out Like Bandits


Behind Closed Doors: Privatized Prisons for Youth



Sick on the Inside: Correctional HMOs and the Coming Prison Plague



Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a Death Sentence



The Riot Academy: Guards Stage Mock Prison Riots to Test the Latest High-Tech Gear



Mapping the Prison Telephone Industry



Shocked and Stunned: The Growing Use of Tasers



For-Profit Transportation Companies: Taking Prisoners and the Public for a Ride



Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Contributors


About PLN


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