Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction
5. Chapter one The Prison Buildup and the Birth of Private Prisons 13
6. Chapter two How the Government Privatized 36
7. Chapter three Prisoners as Commodities 47
8. Chapter four The Prison Industrial Complex 68
9. Chapter five Private Prisons and the American Heartland 79
10. Chapter six The Prison Divestment Movement 110
11. Chapter seven The Politics of Private Prisons 126
12. Chapter eight Shadow Prisons: Inside Private Immigrant Detention Centers 137
13. Chapter nine Public Prisons Versus Private Prisons 169
14. Chapter ten Wrestling with the Concept of Private Prisons 182
15. Chapter eleven The Future of Private Prisons 211
16. Conclusion 231
17. Notes 237
18. Index 295