An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
by
Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal...