Inside private prisons [electronic resource] : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration / Lauren-Brooke Eisen.

The prison buildup and the birth of private prisons
How the government privatized
Prisoners as commodities
The prison-industrial complex
Private prisons and the American heartland
The prison divestment movement
The politics of private prisons
Public prisons vs. private prisons
Wrestling with the concept of private prisons
Shadow prisons : inside private immigrant detention centers
The future of private prisons.