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Locking up 2.3 million people is not cheap. Each year the American government spends 185 billion tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison Proifiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations and other industries and individuals that benefit from mass imprisonment.
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Tara Herivel is an attorney in Oregon. She is a co-editor, with Paul Wright, of "Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration" (The New Press) and a co-author, also with Paul Wright, of "Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor." She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Paul Wright is the founder and editor of "Prison Legal News." He is a co-editor, with Tara Herivel, of "Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration" (The New Press) and a co-author, also with Tara Herivel, of "Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor." Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center and a winner of the National Lawyers Guild Arthur Kinoy Award. He lives in Lake Worth, Florida.
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
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The New Press, 2009
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
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Hard Back. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. 323 Pages. Brand new condition. Lot of notes but no index. Here is the astonishing range of industries, corporations, and individuals profiting from the imprisonment of over 2.3 million Americans. A report produced for the private prison industry by investment analysts First Analysis Securities Corporation concluded that with the baby boomlet demographics that increasing demand for juvenile incarceration services. It is often difficult to maintain the occupancy rates required for profitability. Locking up 2.3 million people isn't cheap. Each year federal, state, and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. This book looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country's experiment with mass imprisonment. It lets us follow the money from public to private hands and exposes how monies formerly designated for the public good are diverted to prisons and their maintenance. Find out where your tax dollars are going as you help to bankroll the biggest prison machine the world has ever seen. Contributors:Judy Greene on private prison giants Geo and CCA; Anne-Marie Cusac on who sells electronic weapons to prison guards; David Lapido on how private corporations profit from prison labor; Wil S. Hylton on the largest prison health care provider; Ian Urbina on how prison labor supports the military; Kirsten Levingston on the privatization of public defense; Jennifer Gonnerman on the costs to neighborhoods from which prisoners are removed; Kevin Pranis on the banks and brokerage houses that finance prison building; and Silja Talvi on the American Correctional Association as a tax-funded lobbyist for professional prison bureaucracies. N° de réf. du vendeur 20157
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. The astonishing range of industries, corporations, and individuals profiting from the imprisonment of over 2.3 million Americans. Locking up 2.3 million people isn't cheap. Each year federal, state, and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison Profiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country's experiment with mass imprisonment. It lets us follow the money from public to private hands and exposes how monies formerly designated for the public good are diverted to prisons and their maintenance. Find out where your tax dollars are going as you help to bankroll the biggest prison machine the world has ever seen. N° de réf. du vendeur 002867
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