Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

E-ISBN 978-0-231-54231-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Eisen, Lauren-Brooke, author.

Title: Inside private prisons : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration / Lauren-Brooke Eisen.

Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017027653 | ISBN 9780231179706 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Prisons—United States. | Privatization—United States. | Corrections—Contracting out—United States.

Classification: LCC HV9469 .E57 2017 | DDC 365/.973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027653

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