Private Prisons and Public Accountability explores the contribution of private prisons to custodial practices, standards, and objectives. Many experts believe t

Private prisons have become an integral part of the penal system in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. There already are over 100 such prison

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

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilitie

A novel explanation for state prison privatization: that they do so to limit legal and political accountability for inmate lawsuits. One of the most controversi