Media Portrayals of Prison Privatization: A Research Note
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Volume 68 Number 3
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December 2004
Abstract:
One solution to overcrowding of prisons in recent decades is the use of privately operated prisons. The author studies the language of print media portrayals of private prisons from 1986 to 2002 to detect trends in the presentation of this topic to the public.