Criminal Values? Race, Class, & “Capitalist” Punishment Controversies of Cost-Cutting, Privatization, and the Prison System

Exploding Incarceration Rates Meant an Overcrowding Crisis Behind Bars U.S. prison population has more than quadrupled since 1980

Response #1: Punishment on the Cheap

Response #2: The Birth of a Prison Industrial Complex Multibillion dollar business: 1.Prison construction 2.Food services 3.Clothing manufacturers 4.Health Services 5.“Security-Ware”

Controversies Efficiency Argument Efficiency Argument How do private prisons compare with their public-sector counterparts? How do private prisons compare with their public-sector counterparts? Legitimacy Argument Legitimacy Argument To what extent is the use of for-profit private prisons consistent with society's obligations to those it incarcerates? To what extent is the use of for-profit private prisons consistent with society's obligations to those it incarcerates?

Criminologists Are Most Concerned With Legitimacy Break down in accountability Break down in accountability Human Conditions of Confinement Human Conditions of Confinement Beyond Public-Private Beyond Public-Private