Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime is an authoritative book on the growing use of private prisons. This book from The Independent Institute brings together leading criminal justice researchers to tackle the questions: Has the privatization of prisons increased costs, decreased quality and eroded authority? Does prison privativation make economic sense? What are the prospects for enlarging prison privatization? "Changing the Guard" also examines broader questions regardings prison over crowding, civil liberty abuse, etc.
