PBS Origins 's video: Why Do We Have Private Prisons

Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/originofeverything The US imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Today, Danielle explores why so many Americans are incarcerated and why we've turned to private prisons to hold that population. Check out Nature League! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZftFO1i4jNijeKInnCZXTYg9l3HVlbXl Written and Hosted by: Danielle Bainbridge Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios --- Follow us on... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/originofeverythingpbs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pbsoriginofeverything/?hl=en --- Origin of Everything is a show about the undertold histories and cultural dialogues that make up our collective story. From the food we eat, to the trivia and fun facts we can’t seem to get out of our heads, to the social issues we can’t stop debating, everything around us has a history. Origin of Everything is here to explore it all. We like to think that no topic is too small or too challenging to get started. Works Cited The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault https://zulfahmed.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/disciplineandpunish.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role-in-criminal-justice.html On restorative justice https://www.aclu.org/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-mass-incarceration https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/nyregion/brutal-force-at-rikers-island-continues-at-an-alarming-rate-report-says.html https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686/pa-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-massive-juvenile-justice-bribery-scandal?sc=tw&cc=share?sc=tw&cc=share Michael Hallett Private Prisons in America Robert Perkinson Texas Tough Ruthie Gilmore Golden Gulag Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete? Marie Gottschalk Caught George Jackson (Soledad Brother and Blood in my Eyes) On violations at Riker’s Island in New York https://www.ncsc.org/~/media/C056A0513F0C4D34B779E875CBD2472B.ashx https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/nyregion/brutal-force-at-rikers-island-continues-at-an-alarming-rate-report-says.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/us-attorneys-office-reveals-civil-rights-investigation-at-rikers-island.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0u0hPlzCUTpQhbctYoRjujOw1F0gDpBTossIr06a-4D6Kn7N_b3Dnzr5s Last Meals Of Death Row Inmates https://www.businessinsider.com/last-meals-of-innocent-executed-men-2013-2 https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/last-meals-of-death-row/7/ https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/dorothea-lynde-dix https://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/05/21/womens-prison-association-records http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm Mary Ellen Curtis Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/convict-leasing/ https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis https://khn.org/news/a-dearth-of-hospital-beds-for-patients-in-psychiatric-crisis/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/