Introduction / Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell and Rodney Neufeld
The rise of the prison industrial complex in the United States / Phillip J. Wood
Privatized problems : for-profit incarceration in trouble / Christian Parenti
The problem of prison privatization : the US experience / Jeff Sinden
Juvenile crime pays
but at what cost? / Alex Friedmann
Lack of correctional services / Judith Greene
Private prisons and health care : the HMO from hell / Elizabeth Alexander
International law and the privatization of juvenile justice / Mark Erik Hecht and Donna Habsha
Prison privatization : the arrested development of African Americans / Monique W. Morris
Prison privatization and women / Katherine van Wormer
Incarceration of Native Americans and private prisons / Frank Smith
The use of privatized detention centers for asylum seekers in Australia and the UK / Bente Molenaar and Rodney Neufeld
Worker rights in private prisons / Joshua Miller
"Get tough" efficiency : human rights, correctional restructuring and prison privatization in Ontario, Canada / Dawn Moore, Kellie Leclerc Burton and Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Prison privatization in the United Kingdom / Stephen Nathan
Prison privatization developments in South Africa / Julie Berg
Private prisons : emerging and transformative economies / Stephen Nathan
Women prisoners as customers : counting the costs of the privately managed Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre : Australia / Amanda George
Conclusion / Andrew Coyle.