Big Brother as a Contract Monitor: An Assessment of the Use of Contract Staff to Monitor Offender Communications

The privatization of prison services is a growing trend in the field of corrections; however, this growth has not been matched by evaluative research. This study examines the use of contract staff to supplement state intelligence investigators’ efforts to monitor outgoing offender telephone communic...

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Authors: Dierenfeldt, Rick (Author) ; Lindsteadt, Greg (Author) ; Laan, Jacob (Author) ; Sobba, Kristen N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2016, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 279-295
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Keywords:
Corrections intelligence
Institutional crime
Interrupted-time series analysis
Prison privatization