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Moore Releases Report Critical of Private Prisons - Milwaukee State Senator Gwendolynne S. Moore expresses concern over the treatment of Wisconsin inmates sent out of the state, and concern for the industry.
 
Prisons for Profit - Excellent series of articles on prisons by ABC News.
 
Private Prisons - Eric Bates, reports on analyst expectations for the private share of the prison market to more than double in the next 5 years. [The Nation]
 
Private Prisons Proposed for West Virginia - Developers have their eyes on property to construct two private prisons that would hold about 2,500 inmates. [Appalachian Focus]
 
Private Prisons: Profits of Crime - Phil Smith reports on the ethics, history and current state of private prisons. [Covert Action Quarterly]
 
Privatization of Prison Medical Services Challenged - Prison medical workers disagree with Nevada Governor's plan to privatize medical care for inmates, for fear of lower quality of services. [North Lake Tahoe Bonanza]
 
Reach Out and Gouge Someone - David Fischer takes a look at the boom in prison telephone systems. [U.S. News]
 
Steel Town Lockdown - Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. [Mother Jones]
 
Tennessee Retreats from Prison Privatization - Contains a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, on the decision by Tennessee not to privatize its prisons.
 
The Big (Empty) House - A new $45 million medium-security prison that is apparently the result of a miscommunication is set to open in Stewart County, Georgia next month and will have everything a correctional facility could need ... except prisoners. [MoJo Wire: Must Read]
 
The New Slave Ships - Ron Jacobs characterizes the industry, its profitization tactics, and the connection between Sodexho Marriott and the Corrections Corporation of America.
 
The Prison-Industrial Complex - An analysis of the public and private systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the industry, with photographs. [Atlantic Monthly]
 
The Ties that Bind - Commentary, by Carol Strick, about the ties between corporations and prisons. [North Coast Express]
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