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Punishment for sale : private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge / Donna Selman and Paul Leighton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selman, Donna, 1967-
- Series:
- Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
- Issues in crime & justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corrections--Contracting out--United States.
- Corrections.
- Corrections--Contracting out.
- United States.
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Privatization--United States.
- Privatization.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2010]
- Contents:
- America's incarceration binge : the expansion of prisons, budgets, and injustice
- The big government "problem" and the Kentucky fried prison "solution"
- The prison-industrial complex : profits, vested interests, and politics
- Confronting problems : blame prisoners and contracts, then get a bailout
- A critical look at the efficiency and overhead costs of private prisons
- Conclusion : back to the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442201729
- 144220172X
- 9781442201736
- 1442201738
- 9781442201743
- 1442201746
- OCLC:
- 428731383
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