| Abstrakt: |
Research on the privatization of punishment has focused almost exclusively on the emergence of private prisonsâ”prisons that are designed, managed, and operated by private companies and funded through contracts with federal, state, and local governments. Privatization, however, is a far broader phenomenon than this. Private companies are increasingly present in public prisons, providing a large array of services and technologies. This ethnographic study documents the impact of private vendors on the public prison, with a particular focus on how privatization changed both the logic and practice of punishment, and manufactured demand for new forms of social control. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
