Shorter Pieces
Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore, “Some Reflections on Prison Labor,” 2019.
Kay Whitlock, “Prison Reform Misdirection: 5 Caveats About Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration,” 2016.
Craig Gilmore, Twitter thread on prison privatization, 2018.
Craig Gilmore, “On the Business of Incarceration,” 2019.
Silky Shah, “Beyond Private Prisons,” 2022.
Micah Herskind, “It’s Not Enough to End Private Prisons. We Need a World Without Prisons,” 2022.
Brian Sonenstein, “Elizabeth Warren’s Flawed but Well-Intentioned Proposal for Banning Private Prisons,” 2019.
Darren Klimek, “Abolishing Private Prisons Is a Start, But It Will Not End Mass Incarceration,” 2020.
Dan Berger, “How Prisons Serve Capitalism,” 2018.
David Stein, “Still Bringing the State Back In: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration,” 2017.
Critical Resistance, “Private Prisons,” 2016.
Longer Pieces and Books
Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Inside Private Prisons, 2017 [I disagree with many of the book’s conclusions, but lots of valuable information in it. Interview with author linked]
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