Under 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 in America,
Michael A. Hallett reveals that these issues are only part of the
story. Demonstrating that imprisonment serves numerous agendas
other than "crime control," Hallett's analysis suggests that
private prisons are best understood not as the product of
increasing crime rates, but instead as the latest chapter in a
troubling history of discrimination aimed primarily at African
American men.
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