Lauren-Brooke Eisen - Inside Private Prisons - John Jay Research Book Talk April 25, 2018
Channel: John Jay Research
Date: 2018-05-07

Publisher site: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/inside-private-prisons/9780231179706 
https://www.brennancenter.org/expert/lauren-brooke-eisen 

Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen's work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America's largest private prison corporations. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape. 

Ms. Eisen was joined in her discussion by Professor Martin Horn, Distinguished Lecturer in Corrections at John Jay College. 

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is Senior Fellow in the Brennan Center's Justice Program, where she focuses on improving the criminal justice process through legal reforms.