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» AFSCME Corrections United (ACU): Private Prisons Watch - Collection of publications, statutes, and Internet resources, organized by a correction labor union.
» Cashing in on Criminality: Private Prisons, Corporate Power, and the Color of Crime - Prospectus explores evidence that substantiates prison privatization as a growing phenomenon in the United States.
» Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML): Private Prisons and Prison Labor - Collection of interesting articles, skeptical of public costs and private profits.
» Competitive Corrections Research Project - Aims to explore and evaluate the role of the private sector in corrections. Features news and publications.
» Corporate Corrections? Frequently Asked Questions About Private Prisons - Adrian Moore, director of economic studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, gives an introduction and gives the surrounding controversy.
» Oregon AFSCME Corrections: Private Prisons - Statement against privatization, news articles, references and reports.
» Private Jails and Prisons: Correctional Officers Resource - Jerry Hawley, correctional consultant and retiree from the Oregon Public Safety Academy, discusses and publishes opinions, and Internet resources.
» Private Prisons Information Action Kit - Essays on why to oppose privatisation, published by the People's Justice Alliance, of Australia.
» Private Prisons for Dummies: Paul's Justice Page - An introduction to the actions of the Corrections Corporation of America.
» Privatization Database: Corrections - An analysis of trends, practices, research findings and cost savings potential of privatized prisons.
» Privatization Watch - News, reports and resources on prison privatization; focus on Florida.
» Privatization of Prisons: The Public Policy Debate - Looks at the rise of privatization, assesses the pros and cons, decision making, implementation and evaluation of current facilities with references.
» The Prison Industry: Capitalist Punishment - Feature including editorials and reports on the private prison system. [corpwatch.org]
» Well Kept: Comparing Quality of Confinement in a Public and a Private Prison - Study compares public against private operation of a women's prison in New Mexico, using a federal women's prison as a third point of reference. Published by University of Connecticut, October 1996.