Inside private prisons : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration / Lauren-Brooke Eisen.

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. By the twenty-first century, more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty...

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Main Author: Eisen, Lauren-Brooke (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
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Inside private prisons : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration / by Eisen, Lauren-Brooke

Published 2018
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