Author: Colorado. Department of CorrectionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Annual Report Concerning the Status of Private Contract Prisons
Author: Colorado. Department of CorrectionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Inside Private Prisons
Author: Lauren-Brooke EisenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration—to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen’s work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America’s largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.
Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring of Contract Prisons
Author: Michael E. HorowitzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781457863660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the component of the Department of Justice (DOJ) responsible for incarcerating all federal defendants sentenced to prison, was operating at 20% over its rated capacity as of December 2015. To alleviate overcrowding, in 1997 the BOP had begun contracting with privately operated institutions (contract prisons), to confine federal inmates who are primarily low security, criminal alien adult males with 90 months or less remaining to serve on their sentences. This report examined how the BOP monitors these facilities and assessed whether contractor performance meets certain inmate safety and security requirements. It found that, in most key areas, contract prisons incurred more safety and security incidents per capita than comparable BOP institutions and that the BOP needs to improve how it monitors contract prisons. Figures. This is a print on demand report.
Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons
Author: James AustinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
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 1987 and 1998, with proponents suggesting that allowing facilities to be operated by the private sector could result in cost reductions of 20%. The study examined the historical factors that gave rise to the higher incarceration rates, fueling the privatization movement, and the role played by the private sector in the prison system. It outlines the arguments, both in support of and opposition to, privatized prisons, reviews current literature on the subject, and examines issues that will have an impact on future privatizations. The report concludes that, rather than the projected 20-percent savings, the average saving from privatization was only about 1 percent, and most of that was achieved through lower labor costs. Nevertheless, there were indications that the mere prospect of privatization had a positive effect on prison administration, making it more responsive to reform.
Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Issues in Contracting for the Private Operation of Prisons and Jails
Author: Judith C. HackettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Commission of Prisons
Author: New York (State). State Commission of PrisonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Author: Ohio
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