Introduction / by Tara Herivel
The political economy of prisons
Banking on the prison boom / Judith Greene
Million-dollar blocks: the neighborhood costs of America's prison boom / Jennifer Gonnerman
Doing borrowed time: the high cost of backdoor prison finance / Kevin Pranis
Making the "bad guy" pay: growing use of cost shifting as an economic sanction / Kirsten D. Levingston
Prisons, politics, and the census / Gary Hunter and Peter Wagner
Don't build it here: the hype versus the reality of prisons and local employment / Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter B. Wood
The cultural commodification of prisons / Paul Wright
The private prison industry
Prison labor fuels American war machine / Ian Urbina
On the inside with the American Correctional Association / Silja J.A. Talvi
Jails for Jesus / Samantha M. Shapiro
Florida's private prison industry corporation under siege / David M. Reutter
Behind closed doors: privatized prisons for youth / Tara Herivel
Sick on the inside: correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague / Wil S. Hylton
Private health care in jails can be a death sentence / Paul von Zielbauer
The riot academy: guards stage mock prison riots to test the latest high-tech gear / Jennifer Gonnerman
Mapping the prison telephone industry / Steven J. Jackson
Shocked and stunned: the growing use of tasers / Anne-Marie Cusac
For-profit transportation companies: taking prisoners and the public for a ride / Alex Friedmann.
