Articles Privatization Prisons Crime and Justice

An analysis of the public and private systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the industry, with photographs. [Atlantic Monthly]

• The Big (Empty) House - A new $45 million medium-security prison that is apparently the result of a miscommunication is set to open in Stewart County, Georgia next month and will have everything a correctional facility needs, except prisoners. [MoJo Wire: Must Read]
• The Prison-Industrial Complex - An analysis of the public and private systems. articles In-depth piece privatization on the economics of the industry, articles with photographs. [Atlantic Monthly]
• Steel Town Lockdown - Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, prisons into the private-prison capital of the world. [Mother Jones]
• Private Prisons: Profits of Crime - Article critical of private prisons. Discusses ethical, legal, articles practical, and prisons historical arguments against prison privatization. Published articles by Covert Action Quarterly, prisons Fall 1993.
• The Ties that Bind - Commentary, by Carol Strick, about the ties between articles corporations and prisons prisons. [North Coast Express]

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