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The debate over the privatization of criminal justice services, especially of imprisonment, has featured prominently in the ongoing controversy over the proper scope and size of government. In the US, the record of private ownership has been bleak - ridden with political corruption, physical abuse of prisoners, and the single-minded pursuit of profits. Charles Logan here argues that this need not be the case.

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[Logan] combines meticulous research and articulate and tenacious argumentation for his position....The result is an exhaustive inventory of the criticisms and charges that have been leveled against privatization of the correctional function, coupled with Logan's response to each objection. --Contemporary Sociology Offers us the best-researched account so far of the American private prison business. --British Journal of Criminology Lively and informative....It manages to combine academic rigour with advocacy of the use of private prisons, but it covers fairly and fully the evidence available at this stage from a number of examples in the United States. --Third Way An extremely thoughtful, well-documented, and, at points, passionately argued case....An enviable scholarly achievement, Private Prisons is certain to cause new sparks in the broader debate over the transfer of government functions to the private sector, taking its place alongside (or above) works by Stuart Butler, E.S. Savas, and others. --John J. DiIulio, Jr., Commentary This is a thoroughly researched book set in a cogently--and sometimes eloquently--argued framework....Given the size and diversity of the United States, what Logan has done at an empirical level is impressive. He offers us the best-researched account so far of the American private prison business. --British Journal of Criminology

[Logan] combines meticulous research and articulate and tenacious argumentation for his position....The result is an exhaustive inventory of the criticisms and charges that have been leveled against privatization of the correctional function, coupled with Logan's response to each objection. --Contemporary Sociology<br> Offers us the best-researched account so far of the American private prison business. --British Journal of Criminology<br> Lively and informative....It manages to combine academic rigour with advocacy of the use of private prisons, but it covers fairly and fully the evidence available at this stage from a number of examples in the United States. --Third Way<br> An extremely thoughtful, well-documented, and, at points, passionately argued case....An enviable scholarly achievement, Private Prisons is certain to cause new sparks in the broader debate over the transfer of government functions to the private sector, taking its place alongside (or above) works by Stuart Butler, E.S. Savas, and others. --John J. DiIulio, Jr., Commentary<br> This is a thoroughly researched book set in a cogently--and sometimes eloquently--argued framework....Given the size and diversity of the United States, what Logan has done at an empirical level is impressive. He offers us the best-researched account so far of the American private prison business. --British Journal of Criminology<br>

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