Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons,
told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore
the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of
private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of
problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the
story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the
context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in
undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and
race & ethnicity.