The number of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails more than quadrupled between 1975 and 2005, reaching the unprecedented level of over two million inm

By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men

The second edition of A Country Called Prison discusses how mass incarceration has led to a population of individuals inside the United States who have become l

In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working