Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia UP, 2017)
Who benefits from mass incarceration in the U.S.? In her new book\xa0Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration\xa0(Columbia University Press, 2017),\xa0Lauren-Brooke Eisen explain how, when and why the for-profit prison system emerged, the ways in which it functions throughout the criminal justice system today, and what we might do to improve it.\n\n\n\nStephen Pimpare\xa0is Senior Lecturer in the Politics and Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of\xa0The New Victorians (New Press, 2004),\xa0A People\u2019s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and\xa0Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017).\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law