Inside private prisons : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration /

"When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and...

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Main Author: Eisen, Lauren-Brooke
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017
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Call Number: HV9469 .E57 2017
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