Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-231) and index.

Introduction / Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell and Rodney Neufeld — The rise of the prison industrial complex in the United States / Phillip J. Wood — Privatized problems : for-profit incarceration in trouble / Christian Parenti — The problem of prison privatization : the US experience / Jeff Sinden — Juvenile crime pays--but at what cost? / Alex Friedmann — Lack of correctional services / Judith Greene — Private prisons and health care : the HMO from hell / Elizabeth Alexander — International law and the privatization of juvenile justice / Mark Erik Hecht and Donna Habsha — Prison privatization : the arrested development of Afriican sic Americans / Monique W. Morris — Prison privatization and women / Katherine van Wormer — Incarceration of Native Americans and private prisons / Frank Smith — The use of privatized detention centers for asylum seekers in Australia and the UK / Bente Molenaar and Rodney Neufeld — Worker rights in private prisons / Joshua Miller — "Get tough" efficiency : human rights, correctional restructuring and prison privatization in Ontario, Canada / Dawn Moore, Kellie Leclerc Burton and Kelly Hannah-Moffat — Prison privatization in the United Kingdom / Stephen Nathan — Prison privatization developments in South Africa / Julie Berg — Private prisons : emerging and transformative economies / Stephen Nathan — Women prisoners as customers : counting the costs of the privately managed Metropoltan sic Women's Correctional Centre : Australia / Amanda George — Conclusion / Andrew Coyle.