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Private Prisons and Public Accountability (Hardcover)
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Private Prisons and Public Accountability (Hardcover)
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Private prisons have become an integral part of the penal system in
the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. There already
are over 100 such prisons in these countries, and with the number
of prisoners continuing to increase rapidly, the trend toward
privatization seems irreversible. In this context, Richard Harding
addresses the following issues: the contributions, positive or
negative, that private prisons make to providing custody for
offenders; whether or not private prisons stimulate improvement
within the public prison system; and the difficulties with the
regulation and accountability of private prisons.This book sets out
to explore the contribution of private prisons to custodial
practices, standards, and objectives. Many experts believe that,
properly regulated and fully accountable, private prisons could
lead to improvement within the public prison system, which has long
been degenerate and demoralized. Harding sees the total prison
system as a single entity, with two components: public and private.
He relies upon extensive fieldwork and draws upon published
literature as well as in-house documentation, discussions with
public and private authorities, and a range of government
documents.Key issues covered in Private Prisons and Public
Accountability are: overcrowding, program delivery, prisoners'
rights, quality of staff, and financial control. This volume will
be a significant addition to the criminal justice literature, but
it will also appeal to sociologists, policymakers, and scholars
interested in the privatization of various institutions in our
society.
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