Private Prisons in America Johanna Drucker Co-published by New York University

Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation

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Private Prisons in America Johanna Drucker Co-published by New York UniversityUnder the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned ''war on drugs,'' incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for profit corporations to manage the swelling inmate population. Policy discussions of this trend toward prison privatization tend to focus on cost effectiveness, contract monitoring, and enforcement, but in his Private Prisons