Cover of Private prisons in America

Private prisons in America

by Michael A. Hallett

2006 188 pages eng

Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned "war on drugs," incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for-profit corporations to manage the swelling inmate population. Policy disc…

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