Locked up and Shipped Away: Interstate Prisoner Transfers & the Private Prison Industry
Published: November 18, 2013
Shipping incarcerated people across state lines into for-profit prisons rather than prioritizing reforms that would reduce the number of people behind bars exemplifies our nation’s dangerous reliance on incarceration, particularly incarceration for profit.
Read CJCJ's study, Collateral Consequences on the Interstate Transfer of Prisoners, to learn more on this issue.
Keywords:
prisons, privatization, Randall Shelden, Selena Teji
Posted in Newsroom, Correctional Institutions
Explore how California’s 58 counties send their residents to correctional institutions with interactive maps, charts, and downloadable data.