Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison

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Notes notes to the foreword 1. See K. C. Carceral, Behind a Convict’s Eyes: Doing Time in a Modern Prison, Belmont , CA: Wadsworth, 2004. 2. In general, see Blake McKelvey, American Prisons, Montclair, NJ: Patterson-Smith, 1975. For more specific discussions of private prisons, see David Shichor, Punishment for Profit, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995, and G. Larry Mays and Tara Gray, Privatization and the Provision of Correctional Services, Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing, 1996. 3. Steve J. Martin and Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Austin, Texas Monthly Press, 1987. 4. Vivian M. L. Miller, Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida’s Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 5. Malcolm M. Feeley, “Entrepreneurs of Punishment: The Legacy of Privatization,” Punishment and Society 4:321–44, 2002. 6. Anne Larson Schneider et al., “Public-Private Partnerships in the U.S. Prison System ,” American Behavioral Scientist 43:192–208, 1999. 7. Alexis M. Durham III, “The Future of Correctional Privatization: Lessons from the Past,” pp. 33–49 in Gary W. Bowman, Simon Hakim, and Paul Seidenstat, eds., Privatizing Correctional Institutions, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1993. 8. Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2000,” August, 2003, and “Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2004,” April, 2005. 9. For example, Adrian T. Moore, “Private Prisons: Quality Corrections At Lower Cost,” Policy Study 240, Los Angeles: Reason Public Policy Institute, April 1998. 10. Charles H. Logan, Private Prisons: Cons and Pro, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, p. 117. 11. James Austin and Garry Coventry, “Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons,” National Council on Crime and Delinquency, February 2001. 12. Philip Mattera et al., “Jail Breaks,” Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 2001. 13. Austin and Coventry, op. cit. 14. Scott D. Camp and Gerald G. Gaes, “Growth and Quality of U.S. Private Prisons: Evidence from a National Survey,” Criminology and Public Policy 1:427–50, 2002. 15. “As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence,” New York Times, February 27, 2005: 1, 32. Also “A Company’s Troubled Answer for Prisoners with H.I.V,” New York Times, August 1, 2005. 16. E.g., Richard Harding, “Prison Privatisation: The Debate Starts to Mature,” Current Issues in Criminal Justice 11:109–18, 1999. 17. E.g., Robbin S. Ogle, “Prison Privatization: An Environmental Catch-22,” Justice Quarterly 16:579–600, 1999. 18. E.g., Richard Harding, “Private Prisons,” in Michael Tonry, ed., Crime and Justice: 237 A Review of Research 28:265–346, 1999. See also Harding, Private Prisons and Public Accountability, Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1997. 19. E.g., John DiIulio, Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management , New York: Macmillan, 1990. 20. Jerome H. Skolnick, “Corruption and the Blue Code of Silence,” Police Practice and Research 3(1):7–19, 2002. 21. Lois Pressler, “Remorse and Neutralization among Violent Male Offenders,” Justice Quarterly 20(4):801–825, 2003. 22. Mark Simpson, “The Relationship between Drug Use and Crime: A Puzzle inside an Enigma,” International Journal of Drug Policy 14(4):307–319, 2003. 23. Mona Lynch, “Rehabilitation as Rhetoric: The Ideal of Reformation in Contemporary Parole Discourse and Practices,” Punishment and Society 2(1):40–65, 2000. 24. For a discussion of some of these issues, see Mitchell J. Miller and Richard Tewksbury , eds., Extreme Methods: Innovative Approaches to Social Science Research, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001. 25. Alison Liebling, “Doing Research in Prison: Breaking the Silence?” Theoretical Criminology 3(2):147–173, 1999. 26. Todd R. Clear et al., “The Value of Religion in Prison: An Inmate Perspective,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 16(1):53–74, 2000. 27. Barbara Owen, “In the Mix”: Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 28. Rhidian Hughes and Meg Huby, “Life in Prison: Perspectives of Drug Injectors,” Deviant Behavior 21(5):451–479, 2000. 29 Stephen C. Richards and Jeffrey Ian Ross, “Introducing the New School of Convict Criminology, Social Justice 28(1):177–190, 2001. See also Jeffery Ian Ross and Stephen C. Richards, Behind Bars: Surviving Prison, New York: Alpha/Penguin, 2002; and Stephen C. Richards, Convict Criminology, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003. 30. Recent examples include three books in which I participated as an editor: K. C. Carceral, Behind a Convict’s Eyes (edited by T. Bernard, L. Alerid, B. Bickle, and A. Bickle), Belmont, CA...