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

A quarter of a century has passed since the Thatcher government launched one of its most controversial reforms: privately run prisons. This book offers an asses

Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to war

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice sy