Prison profiteers: who makes money from mass incarceration
Introduction / by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright -- The political economy of prisons -- Banking on the prison boom / by Judy Greene -- Million-dollar blocks / by Jennifer Gonnerman -- Doing borrowed time: the high cost of back door financing / by Kevin Pranis -- Making the "bad guy" pay: gro...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.]
The New Press
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
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| Summary: | Introduction / by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright -- The political economy of prisons -- Banking on the prison boom / by Judy Greene -- Million-dollar blocks / by Jennifer Gonnerman -- Doing borrowed time: the high cost of back door financing / by Kevin Pranis -- Making the "bad guy" pay: growing use of cost shifting as an economic sanction / by Kirsten Levingston -- Prisoners, politics, money and the census / by Gary Hunter -- Don't build it here: the hype versus the reality of prisoners and local employment / by Clay Mosher, Greg Hooks and Peter Wood -- The cultural commodification of prisons / by Paul Wright -- On the inside with the private prison industry -- Prison labor fuels American war machine / by Ian Urbina -- "To get stuff and sell it for as much as we can get" : federal prison industries and electronics recycling / by Aaron Shuman -- The American correctional association / by Silja Talvi -- Jails for Jesus / by Samantha Shapiro -- Florida's private prison industry corporation under siege / by David M. Reutter -- Making out like bandits -- Behind closed doors: privatized prisons for youth / by Tara Herivel -- Sick on the inside / by Will S. Hylton -- Private health care in jails can be a death sentence / by Paul von Zielbauer -- The riot academy / by Jennifer Gonnerman -- Mapping the prison telephone industry / by Steve Jackson -- Shocked: tasers / by Anne Marie Cusac -- Private prison transportation / by Alex Friedmann -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- About pln |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 323 S. |
| ISBN: | 1595581677 9781595581679 |