Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization and Human Rights

Coyle, Andrew, Allison Campbell & Rodney Neufeld (Editors)

ISBN 10: 1842772910 / ISBN 13: 9781842772911

Published by Clarity Press, Inc./Zed Books, 2003

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Coyle, Andrew, Allison Campbell & Rodney Neufeld (Editors)., Clarity Press, Inc./Zed Books, 2003, c2003, 1st printing?, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine (as new), 235 pp with notes, bibliography & index, 8vo, ISBN: 1842772910, 'How is public well-being served when prisons are run for profit? Prison corporations have not lived up to their promises', Corrections Policy; Prison Systems; Sociology. Seller Inventory # 84531

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Title: Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization ...

Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc./Zed Books

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Prison privatization is rapidly spreading in many Western countries as governments seek to manage burgeoning prison populations within the constraints of a neo-liberal political agenda. But how is public well-being served when prisons are run for pofit? This volume discusses privatization in its historical and ideological context, and in relation to United nations standards and rules. It examines the adverse effects of private prisons on physical and sexual abuse, health care, education, training and rehabilitation, as corporations seek to maximize profits and describes the impact of cost-cutting on prison staff, paying special attention to the effect on women, children and minorities. It also offers a glimpse into the transnational spread of privatized incarceration, as developing nations, bound by IMF restrictions, are forced into the hands of transnational corporations to the detriment of local alternatives.

About the Author:

Andrew Coyle is the Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies, at King's College, London.