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Sinopsis

Locking up 2.3 million people is not cheap. Each year the American government spends 185 billion tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison Proifiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations and other industries and individuals that benefit from mass imprisonment.

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Tara Herivel is an attorney in Oregon. She is a co-editor, with Paul Wright, ofPrison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration (The New Press) and a co-author, also with Paul Wright, ofPrison Nation: The Warehousing of Americas Poor. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Paul Wright is the founder and editor of Prison Legal News. He is a co-editor, with Tara Herivel, ofPrison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration (The New Press) and a co-author, also with Tara Herivel, ofPrison Nation: The Warehousing of Americas Poor. Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center and a winner of the National Lawyers Guild Arthur Kinoy Award. He lives in Lake Worth, Florida.

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