With more than one million people behind bars, the United States imprisons a larger share of its population than any other industrialized nation. This has preci

This timely volume explores the issues of private versus public financing, construction, and management of medium-and high-security

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilitie

This report discusses the findings of a nationwide study on the use of private prisons in the United States. The number of these prisons grew enormously between

This book examines the current state of both the theory and practice of prison privatization in the United States in the 21st century, providing a balanced comp