Add to ORKGEvidence from a National Survey Private prisons incarcerate 5.3 percent of the sentenced, adult population in the United States. Despite the growing use of private prisons, little systematic information has been collected to allow correctional administrators and other policymakers to gauge the general performance of the private sector. To help rectify this shortcoming, the present study presents selected results from a 1999 survey of all private prisons operating in the United States or in U.S. territories
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
This study examines whether survey data collected from inmates can be used to create group-level mea...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
Almost every year, for the past three decades, the number of private prisons in the United States ha...
This independent study examines and empirically tests the effects of the privatization of prisons in...
Private prisons have been a hot topic of political debate since their official conception in the lat...
hy are U.S. federal agencies and state and local governments turning to the private sector for corre...
The growth of the private corrections industry has elicited interest in the comparative performance ...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Includes bibliographic references. The authors considered evaluations of private prisons in nine st...
This study will determine if cheap labor is a potential cause of the increase of private prisons. Th...
2019 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.The efficacy of using private contractors to house p...
Prison privatisation emerged in the United States in the mid 1980s and quickly spread to Australia a...
This study will determine if cheap labor is a potential cause of the increase of private prisons. Th...
Graduation date: 2015Studies on prison violence have typically focused attention at individual level...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
This study examines whether survey data collected from inmates can be used to create group-level mea...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
Almost every year, for the past three decades, the number of private prisons in the United States ha...
This independent study examines and empirically tests the effects of the privatization of prisons in...
Private prisons have been a hot topic of political debate since their official conception in the lat...
hy are U.S. federal agencies and state and local governments turning to the private sector for corre...
The growth of the private corrections industry has elicited interest in the comparative performance ...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Includes bibliographic references. The authors considered evaluations of private prisons in nine st...
This study will determine if cheap labor is a potential cause of the increase of private prisons. Th...
2019 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.The efficacy of using private contractors to house p...
Prison privatisation emerged in the United States in the mid 1980s and quickly spread to Australia a...
This study will determine if cheap labor is a potential cause of the increase of private prisons. Th...
Graduation date: 2015Studies on prison violence have typically focused attention at individual level...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
This study examines whether survey data collected from inmates can be used to create group-level mea...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...