Prisons for Profit: Public Justice, Private Interests: "There are serious structural barriers to genuine competition for prison management contracts; not only are incumbent contractors likely to become entrenched, but the quality of performance may be so difficult to monitor and evaluate that quality-based competition is unlikely to develop."

Prisions for Profit:  A Look at Prison Privatization. ACLU Report: "Privatizing state prisons may in fact undermine sentencing reform's goal to remove low level offenders from the justice system."

Banking On Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration:  "In 2010, the two largest  private porison companies alone received nearly $3 billion dollars in revenue, and their top executives, according to one source, each received annual compensation packages worth well over $3 million." 

Prison Privatization: Recent Developments in the United States

In the United States, the concept of prison privatization was first proposed early in ... Corrections Corporation of America prison in Youngstown, Ohio. ...

http://archive.epinet.org/real_media/010111/materials/greene2.pdf

Prison Privatization

... and implications of privatization for other public values including safety, justice, ... Proponents of privatization argue that private prisons, ... had an important impact upon detention and prison facilities throughout America. ...

http://privatizationofprisons.com/

Prison  Privatization: Past and Present

Prison Privatization is by no means a new concept in America. One early example of it can be found in the form of the Convict Lease System. ...

http://www.ifpo.org/articlebank/prison_privatization.html

Prison Privatization and the Use of Incarceration

the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was awarded a contract to take .... Prison privatization, moreover, has several serious implications for the ...

http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_prisonprivatization.pdf

On the Evils of Privatizing America’s Prison System

Privatizing America's penitentiary system is a dangerous prospect. ... Prisons with Implications for the Cost of Correctional Standards,William N. Trumbull, ...

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/on-the-evils-of-privatizing-americas/

Prisons-Related Websites and Organzations-Inside Prison

Prison Privatisation Report International - global developments in the ... In Search of Tocqueville's Democracy in America Studied American prisons in early ... The Psychological Impact of Incarceration - Implications for Post-Prison ...

http://directory.insideprison.com/prisons_department-of-corrections.asp