CAPITALIST PUNISHMENT: Prison Privatization and Human Rights

Friedman, Alex

ISBN 10: 0932863353 / ISBN 13: 9780932863355

Editore: Clarity Press, Inc., 2008

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• Titolo: CAPITALIST PUNISHMENT: Prison Privatization and Human Rights
• Editore: Clarity Press, Inc.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0932863353
• ISBN 13: 9780932863355
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 340,2 grammi

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Riassunto

Prison privatization is a rapidly increasing phenomenon 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 profit? Bringing together a group of the most accomplished writers and activists on human rights and prison priva-tization, Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights discusses privatization within its historical and ideological context, and in relation to international standard minimum rules developed by the United Nations in relation to prison management. Capitalist Punishment examines the adverse effects of private prisons on inmates related to physical and sexual abuse, health care, education, training, and rehabilitation, as corporations seek to maximize profits. It describes the impact on prison staff, from whose salaries corporate profits are wrung, of further cost cutting in the design of facilities and allocation of personnel. Special attention is paid to the effect on vulnerable groups such as women, children, and dispro-portionately incarcerated minority and indigenous communities. Even as serious questions emerge in the West as to whether privatized prisons offer a more effective and efficient prison system for either inmates or the public at large, the trend to privatization is spreading. Revealing important links between neo-liberal policies locally and their global effects, Capitalist Punishment offers a disturbing glimpse into the transnational spread of privatized incarceration, as developing nations bound by IMFrestrictions are forced into the hands of transnational corporations to the detriment of local incarceration alternatives.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ms. Alexander is the Director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. A graduate of the Yale Law School, she has litigated many cases challenging health care in prisons and has argued three cases before the United States Supreme Court.