Prisons | Private Prisons Foster Corruption
About the author: Vince Beiser is a New York City–based journalist who writes frequently on prison issues.
Want a hot stock tip? Get into prisons. Privately operated, for-profit prisons are multiplying like mushrooms all across the United States. The companies that run them have become Wall Street darlings, and with good reason.
The first private prison opened for business in 1983, holding a mere 350 inmates. Today, almost 90,000 inmates languish in over 100 for-profit lockups in the United States and Puerto Rico. With an increasing number of states considering...
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- Introduction
- Are Prisons Effective?
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How Should Prisons Treat Inmates?
- The Treatment of Inmates: An Overview
- Prisons Should Punish Inmates
- Prisons Should Rehabilitate Inmates
- Inmates Should Not Be Coddled
- Prisoners Should Not Have Access to Weight Training Facilities
- Weight Training Is a Valuable Rehabilitative Tool
- Violent Inmates Should Not Be Placed in Super-Max Prisons
- Should Prisons Be Privatized?
- Should Prisons Use Inmate Labor?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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