University of San Francisco
Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. The United States accounts for approximately 5% of the world’s population, yet it accounts for 25% of the world’s prisoners. Not only does the United States mercilessly incarcerate its own citizens, it disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations profit from and lobby for an overly aggressive and ineffective criminal justice system, makes these statistics even more horrendous. Private prison companies such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group admit that their business model is dependent on the incarceration of massive numbers of human beings and that leniency in criminal punishment would adversely affect profits. The capitalist mentality which is essential for these corporations to stay in business is inherently incompatible with human rights.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts in International and Multicultural Education (IME)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Project/Capstone - Global access
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- International and Multicultural Education (IME)
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Morrell, Alythea S.
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- Dr. Onllwyn C. Dixon
Subjects
dc:subject × 18Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/263
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1274