Prison profiteers
Subtitle: who makes money from mass incarceration
By: edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright.
Contributors: Herivel, Tara.; Wright, Paul, 1965-
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781595581679
Subjects: Prison industries -- Corrupt practices -- United States.; Corrections -- Contracting out -- United States.; Imprisonment -- United States -- Finance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-323).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Tara Herivel; title: The political economy of prisons; title: Banking on the prison boom / Judith Greene; title: Million-dollar blocks: the neighborhood costs of America's prison boom / Jennifer Gonnerman; title: Doing borrowed time: the high cost of backdoor prison finance / Kevin Pranis; title: Making the "bad guy" pay: growing use of cost shifting as an economic sanction / Kirsten D. Levingston; title: Prisons, politics, and the census / Gary Hunter and Peter Wagner; title: Don't build it here: the hype versus the reality of prisons and local employment / Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter B. Wood; title: The cultural commodification of prisons / Paul Wright; title: The private prison industry; title: Prison labor fuels American war machine / Ian Urbina; title: On the inside with the American Correctional Association / Silja J.A. Talvi; title: Jails for Jesus / Samantha M. Shapiro; title: Florida's private prison industry corporation under siege / David M. Reutter; title: Making out like bandits; title: Behind closed doors: privatized prisons for youth / Tara Herivel; title: Sick on the inside: correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague / Wil S. Hylton; title: Private health care in jails can be a death sentence / Paul von Zielbauer; title: The riot academy: guards stage mock prison riots to test the latest high-tech gear / Jennifer Gonnerman; title: Mapping the prison telephone industry / Stevn J. Jackson; title: Shocked and stunned: the growing use of tasers / Anne-Marie Cusac; title: For-profit transportation companies: taking prisoners and the public for a ride / Alex Friedmann.