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New NPR investigative series on private prisons

By Douglas A. Berman

NPR has this interesting and notable new set of pieces on private prisions: Town Relies On Troubled Youth Prison For Profits Private Prison Promises Leave Texas Towns In Trouble What Is GEO Group? Here is the start from one of the pieces:  The country with the highest incarceration rate in the world ? the United States ? is supporting a $3 billion private prison industry.  In Texas, where free enterprise meets law and order, there are more for-profit prisons than any other state.  But because of a growing inmate shortage, some private jails cannot fill empty cells, leaving some towns wishing they'd never gotten in the prison business. It seemed like a good idea at the time when the west Texas farming town of Littlefield borrowed $10 million and built the Bill Clayton Detention Center in a cotton field south of town in 2000...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).