This page is an excerpt from The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry (April 2003) by Peter Wagner, published by the Western Prison Project and the Prison Policy Initiative.
489 Good Jobs First, Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons, p. 1.
490 Private Adult Correctional Facility Census, 1996 and 2001 edition
491 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2001, revised 5/10/02, Table 3.
492 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2001, revised 5/10/02, Table 3.
493 Calculation based on Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2001, Table 12.
494 Judy Greene, “Bailing out Private Jails”, American Prospect Sept 2001.
495 http://biz.yahoo.com for sticker symbol WHC viewed on December 31, 2002.
496 http://biz.yahoo.com for sticker symbol WHC viewed on December 31, 2002.
497 Calculated on Dec 31, 2002 at http://finance.yahoo.com for sticker symbol WHC
498 Calculated on Dec 31, 2002 at http://finance.yahoo.com for sticker symbol ^DJI
499 Tracy Huling, Building a Prison Economy in Rural America, in Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, 2002, p. 202.
500 Tracy Huling, Building a Prison Economy in Rural America, in Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, 2002, p. 202.
501 Judy Greene, “Bailing out Private Jails”, American Prospect Sept 2001.
502 Judy Greene, “Bailing out Private Jails”, American Prospect Sept 2001.
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