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

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

Gaes and his distinguished co-authors offer a comprehensive analysis of public vs. private management of prisons, a competition that originated with the introdu

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

Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prisons owned and operated by private corporations--a booming business. But how are the human rights of pris