Recommended Reading:
Avriam, Hadar. Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015.
Eisen, Lauren-Brooke. Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the age of Mass Incarceration. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2015.
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Benns, Whitney. “American Slavery, Reinvented.” The Atlantic. September 21, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/
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Bozelko, Chandra. “Give Working Prisoners Dignity - and Decent Wages.” The National Review. January 11, 2017. https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/01/prison-labor-laws-wages/
Browne, Jaron. “Rooted in Slavery: Prison Labor Exploitation” Reimagined. Accessed March 2018. http://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/856
Casselman, Ben. “As Labor Pool Shrinks, Prison Time Is Less of a Hiring Hurdle.” The New York Times. January 13, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/business/economy/labor-market-inmates.html
“Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and ‘Low-Crime Taxes’ Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations.” In the Public Interest. September 2013. http://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital-library/Criminal-Lockup-Quota,-In-the-Public-Interest,-9.13.pdf
Downs, Ray. “Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?” May 17, 2013. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvpzkp/whos-getting-rich-off-the-prison-industrial-complex
Eisen, Lauren-Brooke. Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the age of Mass Incarceration. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017.
The Encyclopedia of Corrections, s.v. “Prison-Industrial Complex.” Dari Green and Melinda R. Jackson. Accessed March 2018. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118845387.wbeoc242
“Flexible Pencil, Orange.” Bob Barker: America’s Leading Detention Supplier. Accessed March 2018. https://www.bobbarker.com/pencil-flexible-6-orange.html
Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2015.
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Markowitz, Eric. “Making Profits on the Captive Prison Market.” The New Yorker. September 4. 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/making-profits-on-the-captive-prison-market
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Raher, Stephen. “Paging anti-trust lawyer: Prison commissary giants prepare to merge.” Prison Policy Initiative. July 5, 2016. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2016/07/05/commissary-merger/
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Other sources consulted:
Al-Khatib, Talal. “Doing Time: A History of US Prisons.” Seeker. July 21, 2015. https://www.seeker.com/doing-time-a-history-of-us-prisons-1770031128.html
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“The moral failures of America’s prison industrial complex.” The Economist. July 20, 2015. https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2015/07/20/the-moral-failures-of-americas-prison-industrial-complex
“July, 2015 Commissary Price List.” Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons MCC, New York. Accessed March 2018. https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym/NYM_CommList.pdf
Whitehead, John W. “Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex.” The Huffington Post. June 10, 2012. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/prison-privatization_b_1414467.html