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Captive Market Av Anna (assistant Professor Of Political Science Assistant Professor Of Political Science Louisiana State University) Gunderson

A novel explanation for state prison privatization: that they do so to limit legal and political accountability for inmate lawsuits.One of the most controversial developments in the American criminal justice in the last few decades has been the development of the modern private prison industry. While there are many explanations proffered for the adoption of this policy¿including partisanship, economic stress, unionization, and lobbying efforts by private prison firms¿none fully explain why states privatize their prisons. In Captive Market, Anna Gunderson proposes a novel explanation for why states adopt thispolicy. She shows that states privatize prisons to limit legal and political accountability for inmate lawsuits, an unintended consequence of the legal rights revolution for prisoners. Evidence from an original dataset and interviews with private prison companies, government officials, and advocacy groups suggestthat growing prisoner lawsuits are a significant driver of prison priva

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