Author: Colorado. Office of State AuditorPublisher:
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Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Private Prison Procurement Department of Corrections
Author: Colorado. Office of State AuditorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Georgia Department of Corrections, Private Prison Contracts
Author: 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.
Constructing Correctional Facilities
Author: James R. SevickPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Prison Privatization
Author: Arizona. State Department of CorrectionsPublisher:
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Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Request for Proposal No. 0070-A.
Author: Wyoming. Procurement Services DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Contracting out
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
National Conference on Prison Industries
Author: Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons
Author: James AustinPublisher:
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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.
Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2006
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Federal Prison Industries and Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Procurement, Tourism, and Rural DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description