Private
Corrections Institute
Corrections
Corporation Of America: A Critical Look At Its First Twenty Years (Soros/US
Justice Fund)
CORPWATCH:
Prison Industry - good collection of articles and links.
Prison
Privatization Report International - excellent newsletter with
international coverage + extensive archive
Corporate-Sponsored Crime Laws
Prisons,
Privatization and Public Values (2002) Student paper at
Cornell that provides overview of privatization.
Shelden
Says.com: website of criminologist Randall Shelden (UNLV) contains
many essays on prisons, privatization and the drug war.From The Nation:
The
Wisconsin Legislature's report on CCA
found problems with gangs, drugs, sanitation, food service, medical
issues, inmate mistreatment, prisoner/staff fraternization, etc &
etc.
Western
Prison Project: series of publications and fact sheets on prison,
including America's
Internal Colonies
PRISONS
FOR PROFIT: Jail Business Shows Its Weaknesses. New York Times,
November 24, 1995, p A1.
Private
Prison Research Site. Good resources and a mix of pro and con
information from Dr Logan at the University of Connecticut.
Private
Prisons Information Kit from People's Justice Alliance Melbourne,
Australia (fighting the privatisation of prisons, the imprisonment of women
and speaking out about what happens in prisons)
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AFSCME:
Union page has an excellent list of resources on privatized corrections -
great overview of state legislation about private prisons. Check out 'Don't
be a prisoner to empty promises' and the prison
privatization update.
Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons
(National Institute of Justice Report TEXT
PDF):
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. This 72 page report details the
history, directions and both sides of privatization argument.
Tennessean.com:
Operates out of Nashville, which is also the headquarters for CCA. Use the
keyword search on the Tennessean's business news archives for CCA, Prison Realty
Trust, private prisons, etc. Stock Ticker: CXW
Prison
Industrial Complex (NYU JOurnalism School Blog)
Jail
Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons
The Private-Prison Industry and Political Giving in the South
- an analysis of $1.1 million in
political campaign contributions given in southern states during
the 2000 elections
Report
of Dept of Justice about problems with the
Corrections Corporation of America's facility in Youngstown
Ohio. [Some additional
related documents]
The
Clinton Administration: Progressives for For-Profit Prisons
News clips and anti-privatization
info from someone in the field, and the Association
of Corrections Officers Against Privatization (focused on New York, but many
general resources). There's also an anti-privatization
guard in New Jersey with many thoughts on the topic, though quite a few dead
links.
Corrections
Corporation Of America: A Critical Look At Its First Twenty Years
Corporate-Sponsored Crime Laws ~ Private
Corrections Institute
The Private-Prison Industry and Political Giving in the South - an analysis of
$1.1 million in political campaign contributions given in southern
states during the 2000 elections
Corrections:
documentary video about the story of justice turned to profit (click on the activism links)
Jail
Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons
The Covert Action
Quarterly report on private prisons (from 1993): Private
Prisons: Profits of Crime. [Private prisons are a symptom, a response by private capital to the "opportunities" created by society's temper tantrum approach to the problem of
criminality.]
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