Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Language: English

Published by The New Press, New York London, 2008

1595581677 / 9781595581679

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323 Pages. Brand new condition. Lot of notes but no index. Here is the astonishing range of industries, corporations, and individuals profiting from the imprisonment of over 2.3 million Americans. A report produced for the private prison industry by investment analysts First Analysis Securities Corporation concluded that with the baby boomlet demographics that increasing demand for juvenile incarceration services. It is often difficult to maintain the occupancy rates required for profitability. Locking up 2.3 million people isn't cheap. Each year federal, state, and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. This book looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country's experiment with mass imprisonment. It lets us follow the money from public to private hands and exposes how monies formerly designated for the public good are diverted to prisons and their maintenance. Find out where your tax dollars are going as you help to bankroll the biggest prison machine the world has ever seen. Contributors:Judy Greene on private prison giants Geo and CCA; Anne-Marie Cusac on who sells electronic weapons to prison guards; David Lapido on how private corporations profit from prison labor; Wil S. Hylton on the largest prison health care provider; Ian Urbina on how prison labor supports the military; Kirsten Levingston on the privatization of public defense; Jennifer Gonnerman on the costs to neighborhoods from which prisoners are removed; Kevin Pranis on the banks and brokerage houses that finance prison building; and Silja Talvi on the American Correctional Association as a tax-funded lobbyist for professional prison bureaucracies.…

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Title
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
Author
Herivel, Tara J; Wright, Paul - Editors
Publisher
The New Press, New York London
Publication year
2008
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Fine
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Fine
Binding
Hard Back
Language
English
ISBN 10
1595581677
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9781595581679
Edition
First Edition
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6 1/2" X 8 1/2"

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