Prison, Inc.

K.C. Carceral entered prison shortly after graduating from high school. He continued his education in prison and now holds an Associates Degree as a Paralegal and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is also the author of Behind a Convict's Eyes: Doing Time in a Modern Prison.Thomas J. Bernard is Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at Pennsylvania State University and author of Theoretical Criminology and The Cycle of Juvenile Justice. He also co-edited Carceral's previous book, Behind a Convict's Eyes.

• ForewordThomas J. BernardAcknowledgments Part I Welcome to Enterprise1 The Politics of Enterprise Prison 2 Orientation 3 New Prison Problems Part II Guerrilla Warfare4 Wild Wild West 5 Beat Down Crew 6 The Zoo Part III My Tour7 Caught Up 8 The Other Enemy 9 Gang Related 10 Seg Time Part IV An Exercise in Futility11 Riot 12 Lockdown 13 Aftermath Part V Taking Control14 The Masters15 The Servants 16 The Power Part VI Analysis17 Factors Contributing to Violence and Its Control Notes GlossaryAbout the Author and the Editor

A well written memoir and expose of life inside a privately owned correctional facility. The author does an excellent job at depicting what it is really like inside and the dangerous and harrowing experience for individuals incarcerated in these types of environments. - Jeffrey Ian Ross, co-author of Convict Criminology Something changed in me. The flame was going out. After about twenty years of doing time, I felt like I did when I first came to prison: afraid, mean, not caring about others. I don't know if I hated them more, or myself for letting them change me. (Prison, Inc.) This is the story of what happens when politicians 'out source' their state prisoners to corporations. Convicts become commodities incarcerated in overcrowded private facilities with few programs and staff. Like & boot camps, & three strikes, and so called & truth in sentencing, private prisons are another expensive failure. Meanwhile, the prisoners live day-to-day wondering what new nightmare they will have to endure. - Stephen C. Richards,co-author of Behind Bars: Surviving Prison It helps fill in the eclipse of prison ethnography in the current age of mass incarceration . . . It should be in every library in the United States. (Criminal Justice Review)