The fallout of the financial crisis continues to have major effects across the American correctional landscape. Federal and state budgetary limits have slowed and even reversed what were thought to be ever-rising incarceration rates. While this has successfully led to less punitive policies regarding the death penalty and the war on drugs, incarceration practices have affected punitivism in more complex ways. This article explores the correctional changes prompted by the financial crisis that are being made not at the ballot box, but behind closed doors. The outcomes of negotiations between prison administrators and private service providers, or amongst state governments, are not indicative of a shift in long-term punitive policy, but rathe...
Governments increasingly rely on private prison companies to manage the daunting demands associated...
Since the 70s of last century, the number of prisoners in the US increases. This is not due to an in...
Reacting to widespread budget crises, many states are experimenting with earned release (also known ...
The fallout of the financial crisis continues to have major effects across the American correctional...
This article considers important developments over the last decade which have laid the foundations f...
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. In recent years, actors from across the political spectrum concerned a...
A saner and safer prison policy in the United States begins by ending the scourge of the private pri...
The recent trend toward privately owned and operated prisons calls attention to a variety...
hy are U.S. federal agencies and state and local governments turning to the private sector for corre...
Last year, as the State of California struggled with a $42 billion budget deficit, its financial ina...
This Essay employs a variation of the “interest convergence” concept to examine the competing intere...
James, Christine (2012). Prisons for Profit in the United States: Retribution and Means vs. Ends. Ze...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
One of the frequently criticized aspects of American mass incarceration, privatized incarceration, i...
abstract: In which industry that has ever been profit generating, does a firm profit from their fail...
Governments increasingly rely on private prison companies to manage the daunting demands associated...
Since the 70s of last century, the number of prisoners in the US increases. This is not due to an in...
Reacting to widespread budget crises, many states are experimenting with earned release (also known ...
The fallout of the financial crisis continues to have major effects across the American correctional...
This article considers important developments over the last decade which have laid the foundations f...
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. In recent years, actors from across the political spectrum concerned a...
A saner and safer prison policy in the United States begins by ending the scourge of the private pri...
The recent trend toward privately owned and operated prisons calls attention to a variety...
hy are U.S. federal agencies and state and local governments turning to the private sector for corre...
Last year, as the State of California struggled with a $42 billion budget deficit, its financial ina...
This Essay employs a variation of the “interest convergence” concept to examine the competing intere...
James, Christine (2012). Prisons for Profit in the United States: Retribution and Means vs. Ends. Ze...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
One of the frequently criticized aspects of American mass incarceration, privatized incarceration, i...
abstract: In which industry that has ever been profit generating, does a firm profit from their fail...
Governments increasingly rely on private prison companies to manage the daunting demands associated...
Since the 70s of last century, the number of prisoners in the US increases. This is not due to an in...
Reacting to widespread budget crises, many states are experimenting with earned release (also known ...