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"Prison Profiteers" (2008) published by Prison Legal News (includes
a chapter I wrote on the private prison transportation industry): http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/104_ProductDetails.aspx
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"Capitalistic Punishment" (2003) by Human Rights Internet (includes
a chapter I wrote on privatized juvenile facilities): http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0020.htm
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"Merchandising Prisoners" by Byron Eugene Price (2006) *
"The Perpetual Prison Machine" by Joel Dyer (2000) Websites
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Prison Privatisation Report International (PPRI),
based in the U.K., is an excellent resource for international news on prison
privatization. http://www.psiru.org/ppri.asp *
AFSME operates the Corrections United project, which opposes prison
privatization; they have numerous links to articles and other research:
http://www.afscme.org/workers/67.cfm *
Citizens Against Private Prisons (CAPP) is a good Canadian-based resource,
although they haven't updated their news reports in quite some time. www.capp.50megs.com/ *
CUSA is a correctional officer advocacy organization that, while not a union
itself, is largely composed of organized labor groups or affiliates: www.cusa.org *
A site devoted to news about CCA (mostly business news, but it also includes
other prison-related topics): www.topix.net/com/cxw *
Not With Our Money sponsored a successful student-led campaign to get
Sodexho-Marriott to disinvest from CCA in 2001. They are now organizing
students to protest financial institutions that underwrite private prison,
specifically Lehman Brothers (which also does business with many colleges and
universities). The following article as details: http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/924/prison-for-profit-loses-its-appeal Articles
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Eric Bates' article for The Nation, published Jan. 5, 1998 (provides good background
info; I'm quoted and faced retaliation for contributing). He also wrote a
follow-up article in June 1999: http://agitprop.org.au/stopnato/20000711prisonatus.php
and http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990607/bates *
Christian Parenti's 1999 article on the private
prison industry is also instructive: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=852 Good
article on CCA’s disastrous attempt to operate the Youngstown, OH facility: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/05/steeltown.html Research
There
is a wealth of research regarding private prisons -- mostly
government-sponsored studies of the cost effectiveness of privatization. Some
of these studies and reports are compiled on PCI's website: http://www.privateci.org/reports.html Also
see: http://cad.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/45/3/358
NOTE:
Studies by former Prof. Charles Thomas have to be read in the context that he
received payments from private prison companies (including a $3 million
payment from CCA/Prison Realty Trust) while he was conducting supposedly
independent research into the industry. Also, research by the Reason Public
Policy Institute (RPPI), the Reason Foundation and Foundation spokesman Dr.
Charles H. Logan is suspect, as the Reason Foundation has also received
funding from the private prison industry. *
For information on former Prof. Charles Thomas, a private prison researcher
with links to CCA who was found guilty of ethics violations, please review
the following link. PCI Director Ken Kopczynski wrote a book on how he almost
single-handedly took down Charles Thomas. Mr. Thomas still provides research
concerning the private prison industry, as many policy makers are unaware of
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