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Private prisons : cons and pros / Charles H. Logan.
LIBRA HV9469 .L64 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Logan, Charles H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- United States.
- Privatization--United States.
- Privatization.
- Corrections--Contracting out--United States.
- Corrections.
- Corrections--Contracting out.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 318 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Contents:
- 1 The Iron Fist Meets the Invisible Hand 7
- 2 Private Prisons Today: A Descriptive Overview 13
- 3 Issues and Arguments in the Debate over Private Prisons 38
- 4 The Propriety of Proprietary Prisons 49
- 5 Issues of Cost and Efficiency 76
- 6 Issues of Quality 119
- 7 Issues of Quantity 149
- 8 Issues of Flexibility 162
- 9 Issues of Security 171
- 10 Issues of Liability 181
- 11 Issues of Accountability and Monitoring 194
- 12 Issues of Corruption 211
- 13 Issues of Dependence 221
- 14 Private Prisons and the Privatization of Punishment 236.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195063538
- OCLC:
- 20755495
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