Why Do We Have Private Prisons?

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The US imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Today, Danielle explores why so many Americans are incarcerated and why we've turned to private prisons to hold that population.

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Written and Hosted by: Danielle Bainbridge
Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios
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Works Cited
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault
https://zulfahmed.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/disciplineandpunish.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role-in-criminal-justice.html
On restorative justice
https://www.aclu.org/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-mass-incarceration
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/nyregion/brutal-force-at-rikers-island-continues-at-an-alarming-rate-report-says.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686/pa-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-massive-juvenile-justice-bribery-scandal?sc=tw&cc=share?sc=tw&cc=share
Michael Hallett Private Prisons in America
Robert Perkinson Texas Tough
Ruthie Gilmore Golden Gulag
Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?
Marie Gottschalk Caught
George Jackson (Soledad Brother and Blood in my Eyes)
On violations at Riker’s Island in New York
https://www.ncsc.org/~/media/C056A0513F0C4D34B779E875CBD2472B.ashx
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/nyregion/brutal-force-at-rikers-island-continues-at-an-alarming-rate-report-says.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/us-attorneys-office-reveals-civil-rights-investigation-at-rikers-island.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0u0hPlzCUTpQhbctYoRjujOw1F0gDpBTossIr06a-4D6Kn7N_b3Dnzr5s
Last Meals Of Death Row Inmates
https://www.businessinsider.com/last-meals-of-innocent-executed-men-2013-2
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/last-meals-of-death-row/7/
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/dorothea-lynde-dix
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/05/21/womens-prison-association-records
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm
Mary Ellen Curtis Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/convict-leasing/
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis
https://khn.org/news/a-dearth-of-hospital-beds-for-patients-in-psychiatric-crisis/
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/

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