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Private Prisons Don’t Make Better Prisoners
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2009
by Andrew L. Spivak
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2009, page 11
by Prof. Andrew L. Spivak
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Statistics/Trends,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism.
Locations:
Florida,
Oklahoma.
The incarceration rate, which from the 1920s to the early 1970s hovered between about 100 to 120 state and federal prisoners per 100,000 Americans, has risen nearly fourfold. While the rate of increase has slowed substantially in recent years, the raw numbers continue to climb ...
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- Behind Montana Jail Fiasco: How Private Prison Developers Prey on Desperate Towns, by Justin Elliott
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Private Prisons Don’t Make Better Prisoners, by Andrew L. Spivak
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- Arizona Jail’s Medical Failures Due to Inadequate Record Keeping, Understaffing, by Matthew Clarke
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- Increasing Number of Prisoners Obtain Access to Email, by Brandon Sample
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- Violence Against Blacks Decreases In The U.S., by Gary Hunter
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- Nearly 15,000 California Prisoners Held in Long-term Isolation, by Michael Brodheim
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- $2.2 Million Settlement: Murder by Washington State Community Service Releasee
- Michigan’s Prison Industries Mismanaged and Unprofitable, by David Reutter
- Mental Illness Prevalent Among County Jail Prisoners, Especially Women, by Gary Hunter
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- AMA Study Finds Link Between Confinement and Hypertension
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- Eight More Prison Closures in Michigan
- Ohio Prison Employees Involved in Improper Relationships, Drug Smuggling, Sexual Misconduct, by Mark Wilson
- 4,000 Kenyan Death Sentences Commuted to Life, by Matthew Clarke
- California Struggles to House Sex Offenders, by Michael Brodheim
- $150,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Beating
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