From.........Bars To........Windows: “A State Inmate's Perspectives on How We as a Nation Can Sensibly Apply Bill Gates Theories of Creative Capitalism to Reform Our Nation's Prison System............And Solve Our Nation's Energy Crisis While We're at It!”

By Andrew McDermott and Drexel Reid

Through out the past quarter century, there has been an increased focus on corrections both as a means of social control (i.e. reducing crime) and generating income (i.e. profiteering from punishment); and with this in mind From Bars to Windows, attempts to examine how and explain why we can change the orientation of national correctional policy to more equitably spread the wealth generated by our nations prison system. Unlike the traditional staple of prison writing comprised of psuedo redemptive autobiography's, violence, sexual brutality, and the like-From Bars to Windows, concentrates more on the fundamental economics' of our prison system. Indeed this book is a virtual how to manual that explains the in's and outs of ethically and morally profiteering from our prison system.

The book lays out exactly how investors can reap tremendous profits by taking advantage of the readily available for-profit prison industrial infrastructure that exists within our country. Market conditions are such that now the Green Energy sector is poised for virtually unparalleled growth. On the other side of the equation, there's a burgeoning prison manufacturing sector. For instance there were over 100 Federal prison based factories, which employed more than 21,000 inmates and generated over $546.3 million in net sales in 2003 alone.. As multi nationals realize that continued outsourcing of manufacturing jobs is no longer a viable or sustainable strategy, there's going to be an inexorable nexus between manufacturing on the one hand, and rehabilitative Prison industries on the other-with billions in potential profits at stake.

Some of the highlights of the book include:

defines and explains, Gatsian economic theory

explains how prisons and profiteering are inextricably linked

provides an examination of how the inherent economic potential of the prison black market can be harnessed to yield net economic gains for society

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456701420

Andrew McDermott

Andrew McDermont, is a founding member of YISACA LLC and The collaborative Prison Writers guild. The latter being a comprised of members who seek to foster rehabilitation in part through literary and artistic expression. In addition to being a founding member of numerous inmate oriented organizations, he has personally collaborated on multiple projects, including essays to Christian Brothers University in Memphis Tennessee, Christian essays to various seminary's such as Vision Christian College and Seminary, Clearmont, Florida; and Newspapers such as The U.S.A. Today, The Tennesseean, He has also collaborated and worked on numerous proposals to the Tennessee Department of Corrections, which focused on improving the security, efficiency and cost effectiveness of their rehabilitative and educational programs. Mr. McDermont is an inmate who is currently serving a 14 year sentence, for several non-violent Drug Related Robbery convictions. He is an ex Drug trafficker/Dealer who has been incarcerated since his 19th birthday. However, during the two short years that he's been incarcerated he has managed to utilize his time to not only rehabilitate himself, but also develop an array of comprehensive and innovative ideas regarding inmate rehabilitation and the macro_economic revitalization of our Great nation as a whole. He can be contacted at [e-mail] For more information please go to yisaca.com or email him c/o [e-mail]

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FROM………BARS TO……..WINDOWS

A State inmate’s perspectives on how we as a nation can sensibly apply Bill Gates theories of Creative Capitalism to reform our Nation’s Prison system…………and solve our nation’s energy crisis while we’re at it!

ANDREW MCDERMOTT AND DREXEL REID

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The authors Andrew McDermott, 22, and Drexel Reid, 33, met during their incarceration in a Tennessee State Prison. They are both members of and spokespersons for YISACA TM LLC (see more about us at www.yisaca.com).

Mr. McDermott and Mr. Reid both firmly believe that, while we must take great care not to unfairly exploit or abuse any individuals who are currently incarcerated, we must also fight vigorously and tirelessly to end the pro-Marxian socialist mindset that causes our prisons to remain the socially harmful institutions that they are. The authors would like the reader to understand that this book is the product of the combined efforts of many different concerned citizens and benevolent capitalists who all strive toward the goal of improving our society through increased economic prosperity and the limited but effective use of government resources in partnership with the private sector.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Why Should Anyone Listen to an Author Who Is Incarcerated?

Recommended Readingi

Published Studies, Reports and Legal Essays

About the Title of This Book

What This Book Is Not About

Prefacei

Introduction

Chapter 1

Paradoxes: We Are Yet We Are Not

Chapter 2

The Green Revolution: What It Is And Why It Has Not Come Sooner

Chapter 3

Realities Which Confront Us

Chapter 4

Our Current Economic Situation

Chapter 5

Predictions for America Are Increasingly More Bleak

Chapter 6

Solutions to the Structural Problems Which Plague Our Financial Systems, Energy Industries, and Social Institutions

Chapter 7

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project: What It Is and Why It’s Desperately Needed

Chapter 8

Our Nation’s Flawed Prison Management Strategies Have a Diseconomizing Effect and Negative Impact on Viable Business Opportunities Within Our Nation’s Correctional Facilities

Chapter 9

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Seeks to Abolish the Perverse Incentive System That Exists Within Most of Our Nation’s Prisons

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Seeks to Reduce the Instances of Idleness and Institutional Violence by Involving Inmates in Constructive Group Activities Which Harness Their Innate Ability to Plan and Organize in Order to Achieve Something Beneficial

Chapter 10

Historical Analysis of the Origins of the Internet

Our Renewable Energy Manufacturing Infrastructure Needs to Be Heavily Subsidized with Human Capital Provided by the Government (i.e., Prison Inmates) and Investment Capital Provided by Both Public and Private Sector Entities.

Chapter 11

Other Countries Have Done Exactly What the Tri_Green_Revo_Project Seeks to Do

Chapter 12

Smart Business Oriented Legislation Is Needed to Facilitate the Rapid Expansion of a Profitable and Robust Renewable Energy Sector

Profitability in Green Is Reality Not Idealism

Chapter 13

Solar Power

Solar Water Heating Systems

Solar Electricity

Solar Thermal Electricity Systems:

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Can Take Advantage of the Advances in Solar Electricity Technologies

Chapter 14

Wind Energy: The Winds of Change Are Blowing

The Reality: the market demand for wind turbines is growing, despite the fact that this demand far exceeds current manufacturing capacity.

Oceanic Tidal Energy: The tremendous potential of power and profit from Free Flow Tidal Hydro-turbine Mills:

Opportunities on the Horizon

Chapter 15

Fuel Cells: The Future of Energy Production & Storage

If Jesus Were Alive Today He Would Turn Water into Hydrogen Instead of Wine.

Modern Day Industrial Hydrogen Production: When Green Is Not Really Green AT All.

As Green As They Come: Energy production via cellular non-fossilic oxidation

The Commercial Application of Fuel Cells: New enthusiasm for an old idea whose time has come

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Can Take Advantage of the Advances in Fuel Cell Technology

Chapter 16

Water Treatment/Purification and Desalinization Systems

Drought and a lack of access to clean drinking water are not just problems faced by foreign developing nations domestically we Americans need more water too!

State sanctioned ritualistic prayer services asking god to send rain are not necessarily the most sensible nor technologically reasonable course of action that we can take to solve our impending global water crisis.

DESALINIZATION: It used to be EXPENSIVE but now the collective mismanagement of our water resources is costing us even more.

The Commercial Aspect of Desalination and Water Treatment in General

Chapter 17

Solid Waste Management and Biomass Fuel Production

Inadequate Waste Management in the Third World Is a Serious Threat, But It Is Also a Great Opportunity for Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs.

Chapter 18

Disposable Laptops:Bridging the Digital Divide Requires Both Capital and Common Sense Investment Strategies.

Chapter 19

The Tri Green Revo Project:Fighting Poverty and Disease, Though Smart Green Technology Exports and Direct Business Support

The Scourge of Reckless and Heedless Charity

Sound investment strategies, fair trade and exports are the solutions to many of the immediate ills of the developing world.

Chapter 20

Conclusion

FAQs

Is It Sensible or Even Plausible to Attempt Private-Sector For-Profit Ventures in Prison?

An In-Depth Examination of the Market Dynamics and Profitability of the Private, For-Profit Prison Industry

Are There Federal and State Laws that Actually Promote Profiteering from Prison-Based Business Ventures?

Appendix A

Synopsis of Tennessee’s State Correctional System

Appendix B

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project, Not Redistributionist Policies, Is What’s Desperately Needed in Order to Truly Help the Disadvantaged Segments of Our Society.

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Rests on Inherently Conservative Principles, to Wit: Free-Market Capitalism and Individual Achievement

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project is Ideologically Incompatible with Marxist Socialism and the Welfare State It Requires

The True Fallacy of Redistributionists Policy

Conclusion

Appendix C

Why the Tri_Green_Revo_Project Is Desperately Needed

Appendix D

The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Is Urgently Needed

Appendix E

How The Tri_Green_Revo_Project Can Operate within State Prisons

Bibliography

TABLE OF FIGURES AND EXHIBITS

Fig. 8-1 Geographical Lay out of TRICOR

Fig. FAQ-1 Access Catalog Company

WHY SHOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO AN AUTHOR WHO IS INCARCERATED?

Just as the title suggests, the authors are actual inmates who are currently incarcerated in a Tennessee state prison. Therefore, the very first thing that probably pops into your mind is a very simple question: Why in the world should I care what an inmate thinks or says? This is not an unreasonable question. In fact, the authors are inmates and very rarely do they themselves care what other inmates have to say.

However, to answer the question directly the authors would say whether or not you should care what an inmate thinks or says depends on what that particular inmate is talking about and whether it has any inherent benefit! Therefore, if an inmate is sitting in a prison uttering foolishness and spewing unadulterated buffoonery, then you should absolutely ignore him or her – just as the authors would! However, if the inmate has sensible perspectives on important topics and if what he is saying has some socioeconomic value, then maybe, just maybe, it wouldn’t hurt to listen to what he has to say.

Our inherent level of intelligence, human value and capacity to positively contribute to the world isn‘t diminished by virtue of a criminal conviction or confinement in a prison. The authors would caution the reader, as well, not to dismiss the perspectives of someone merely because that person happens to be a prison inmate. There have been plenty of people who have been incarcerated who were highly intelligent, had sensible perspectives on important issues and have contributed significantly to the well-being of their country and to the world. Furthermore, there are many major historic figures who have been incarcerated at some point in time in their life.

The late great Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was incarcerated in Georgia’s infamous Reidsville State Prison, in October 1960, on charges of a probation violation, before being ordered released at the insistence of then presidential candidate John F. Kennedy Jr. In fact, some of Dr. King’s most powerful and moving literary works were penned while he was incarcerated (i.e., his Letter from A Birmingham Jail, written in 1963). Famed A.N.C. founder and former South African President Nelson Mandela spent over 27 years in prison. Russian literary giant, political dissident and intellectual luminary Alexander Solzhenitsyn had spent more then a decade in a Soviet prison. Mohandas Gandhi, the great Indian father of Non-Violence was sentenced to six years in prison for sedition in 1922.

In fact, according to the Bible, Jesus Christ himself was imprisoned, as were the majority of his followers under Roman rule during biblical times. Saint Paul, who wrote 13 of the 27 books contained in New Testament, was one of the most prolific and well-known authors during the early years of the Christian church. He was also a repeat offender with two separate stints in prison. During his first prison term, St. Paul had written what are now commonly referred to as his prison letters— his epistles to the Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians and Philemon. In 62-63 A.D. after his release from prison, St. Paul went on several spiritual journeys during which he wrote his first epistles to St. Timothy and St. Titus. However, after his fourth missionary journey he was incarcerated for a second time under Emperor Nero in 66–67 A.D. It was during his second prison term that St. Paul’s second epistle to Timothy was written (2 Tim. 1: 16). St. John wrote the book of Revelations while incarcerated in a Roman prison on the island of Patmos (Rev. 1: 9).

Granted, these individuals[1], and many like them, were champions of human rights and were spiritually enlightened leaders in their own right. They were only guilty of violating laws that were passed by profligate and repressive governments, who themselves were inherently unjust and immoral. However, even if we focus on the Americans who were incarcerated for considerably less noble causes this trend of prisoner’s of a high caliber nature, doesn’t change. Indeed, even focusing on the more ignominious of Americans who were at some point in time incarcerated for criminal behavior, we would find intellectual leaders and trail blazers who still had the capacity to contribute to the well-being of society.

A perfect example of this trend of prisoners of a high caliber nature who were also famous criminals of historic proportions would be the late Dr. Whernher Von Braun, father of the NASA space program. Dr. Von Braun was, in fact, a Nazi coconspirator, who was detained by American forces as a German prisoner of war. Indeed, after the fall of Berlin in 1945, all of the major known Nazi officials were rounded up and detained in ad hoc prisons and jails at Nuremberg and other locales; among them were the Nazi’s chief scientists and researchers, which included Dr. Von Braun.

Dr. Von Braun was the chief engineer and head of the Nazi’s ballistic missile research division. He helped to develop both the Nazi’s rocket systems and the technology needed to effectively deploy them during the war. Von Braun’s designs and research culminated in the V-2 rocket which was the precursor of all modern day ballistic missile systems. Von Braun’s missile system was the first of its kind in modern history. It was directly responsible for the deaths of over 20,000 Nazi prisoners in forced labor camps. Dr. Von Braun personally witnessed the deaths of between 12-20 Nazi slave laborers/war prisoners per day, due to starvation, disease and execution at the labor camps wherein his rocket systems were constructed, tested and deployed. Yet Dr. Von Braun did absolutely nothing to stop this barbarous conduct. Quite to the contrary, he did everything that he could to aid and assist the Nazi German war machine.[2]

Despite his undeniable complicity in the barbarous war effort and his conduct as a Nazi war criminal, Dr. Von Braun was released from captivity as a captured war criminal and was expatriated to the United States. He was not alone in his release from captivity. He was joined by his brother Magnus along with a Nazi compatriot, Commander Walter R. Dornberger along with about one hundred other members of the Nazi rocket development team. This was all in exchange for their willingness to assist the U.S. government in developing their own rocket and missile guidance systems and also due to their advanced scientific research and technological knowledge. Dr. Von Braun and his fellow Nazi German conspirators were granted this defacto national pardon despite their direct involvement in the enemy war effort.

Speaking honestly, however, America as a nation did benefit tremendously from Dr. Von Braun’s intelligence and research. Indeed, Dr. Von Braun was so prolific and intellectually pioneering that our government had to create an agency specifically tailored to take advantage of his knowledge and engineering prowess, to wit: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (commonly referred to as NASA). Prior to Dr. Von Braun, there was no NASA or even a space program to speak of, for that matter. After its creation, Dr. Von Braun was named director of the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama. Later in his career he became both the deputy associate administrator of NASA in Washington and the founder of the National Space Institute. Dr. Von Braun received countless high awards from U.S. government agencies and from professional societies during his heyday. He was even featured on a cover of Time magazine as an American hero.

However, even if we look at a contemporary list of the more ignominious Americans who fell from grace and wound up incarcerated, it would still reveal a who’s-who list of intellectual leaders, industry movers and shakers, market trendsetters and financial heavy weights who, even during their incarceration, had the capacity to contribute to the well-being of society. A brief list of these Americans would bear out this fact:

a) Martha Stewart, C.E.O. of Martha Inc. whose net worth is over $300 million, was given 19 months in federal prison for lying to federal investigators.

b) Sam Waksal, Former ImClone C.E.O. and a multimillionaire was sentenced to federal prison for insider trading.

c) Sal Welcher, former chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals was sentenced to federal prison for crimes related to his harassment and stalking of his mistress.

d) Ivan Boesky, Wall Street arbitrageur, whose net worth was over $40 million, was convicted of insider trading in 1987 and served 24 months in federal prison.

e) Mickeal Milken, former owner of the investment firm Drexel, Burnham Lambert, and junk bond king whose net worth was valued at over $700 million, was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison.

f) A. Alfred Tuabman, worth approximately $700 million, was a real estate baron and former Sotherbee’s CEO who was convicted in 2001 of price fixing schemes and served almost a year in federal prison.

g) Dan Rostenkowski, former U.S. representative (D-Ill) whose portrait still graces the hallowed walls of our Capitol and who until his death received $120,000/year pension from the government, served a prison sentence for crimes committed while in office.

h) Frank Ballance, former U.S. representative, was sentenced to federal prison for crimes committed while in office.

i) Randy Duke Cunningham, U.S. representative (R-Cali.), pleaded guilty to corruption charges, and is serving multiple sentences in a federal prison.

j) Bob Ney, former U.S., representative (R-N.C.), was sentenced to federal prison for crimes committed while in office.

k) Chuck Colson, former White House Special Counsel to former president Richard Nixon, was sentenced to several years in federal prison for crimes connected to his role in the Watergate scandals.

l) George Ryan, former Illinois state governor, was sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison for racketeering and mail fraud related offenses committed while he was governor.

m) Don Siegleman, former governor of Alabama, was charged and convicted of crimes committed while in office.

n) Lewis Scooter Libby, former Chief Advisor to the former vice president Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury and sentenced to federal prison. (President Bush commuted his sentence in 2008.)

o) Phillip Mortin, millionaire and former chairman of the 2008 presidential campaign of former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, (R-Tenn.), served 13 years for drug possession and felony firearms possession.

p) Jack Abramoff, multimillionaire, former president of the College Republicans, lobbying powerhouse and architect of the K-Street project, was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for fraud.

q) Bernard Kerik, former NY police commissioner and candidate for Homeland Security director, was sentenced to federal prison for various tax- and fraud-related crimes.

r) Norman Shue, millionaire and Democratic mega-fundraiser for both then Senator Hilliary Clinton’s and then Senator Barack Obama’s campaigns, was a fugitive from justice for over 13 years on felony theft and fraud charges.

s) Mark Rich and Pincus Green, both multimillionaire oil magnates and financiers, were granted unconditional pardons after being fugitives from justice since September 1983, when a federal grand jury issued a 51 count indictment against Rich, Green, and others, for wire fraud, mail fraud, racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, tax evasion and trading with the enemy. The government filed a 65 count superseding indictment in March 1984. President Clinton granted these pardons on January 20, 2001, his last day in office, based in part on the efforts of Mark’s ex-wife Denise Rich, a mega-fundraiser for the Democratic party.

t) Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean, former N.Y. hotel magnate, was worth an estimated $1 billion when she died. She served a 2-year prison sentence in federal prison for tax evasion.

u) Mikahil Khodorkovsky, worth an estimated $15 billion and Russia’s richest man, was arrested for fraud and theft.

v) Bernie Ebers, former C.E.O. of World-Com, worth over $100 million, was sentenced to federal prison for corporate related crimes.

w) Steve Madden, the show magnate, was worth an estimated $30 million and served 4 years in federal prison for securities fraud and money laundering.

x) Richard Whitney, once known as the Savior of the Market, was worth an estimated $25 million and served three years in prison for embezzlement in 1983.

y) Al Dunlap, multimillionaire Turn Around specialist and CEO at Sunbeam, was charged with various federal financial crimes and sentenced to federal prison.

z) Kenneth Lay, former CEO of energy trader Enron, was worth over $250 million and has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in the collapse of the energy giant.

aa) Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco and worth an estimated $750 million, was charged with tax evasion and other crimes related to accounting irregularities and was sentenced to prison.

ab) John Riggas, former CEO of Adelphia whose net worth was over $500 million, was sentenced to federal prison for fraud.

ac) Jeff Henderson, author of the best seller Cooked: From The Streets To The Stove, From Cocaine To Foie Gras and former executive chef of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas served multiple years in federal prison for drug related charges.

Clearly, these are all accomplished, responsible and highly capable individuals who had the skills and intelligence to create jobs, strengthen our economy and help our nation before, during and after their incarceration. For instance, Chuck Colson, after being released from prison, helped form Prison Fellowship Ministries which is a nationally recognized faith-based prison reform initiative dedicated to the rehabilitation and spiritual salvation of incarcerated felons. He also co-authored the seminal work Why America Doesn’t Work with former Eckard Pharmacy CEO John Eckard. (see recommended reading section)

Martha Stewart retook the reigns of control of her billion-dollar conglomerate, Martha Inc., and has even more syndication and corporate revenues than she had prior to her incarceration. Micheal Milken, the former junk bond king, despite being banned for life by the S.E.C. from engaging in any securities marketing or trading, now chairs the Milken Institute, a nonprofit economic think tank. He is also active with the Association for the Cure of Cancer (CapCURE), which he founded after a bout with the disease. He has also become a major philanthropist who has also reasserted himself as a major player in the corporate world. He is involved with financing mega-successful ventures such as Leap Frog, the children’s educational multinational firm.

Even when it comes to Americans of lesser fame and income brackets, we still see that from the ranks of the incarcerated come people whose skills and knowledge are quite helpful and valuable. One of the USA’s most prolific cat burglars, Ignacio Pena Del Rio, volunteered to star in a full-length police training and instructional video. This isn’t a video that merely shows Mr. Del Rio’s crimes via news highlight reels. Quite to the contrary, this is an in-depth instructional video, like one would expect from Dr. Oz or an episode of Oprah wherein Mr. Del Rio gives a dissertation and answers questions. His instructional video is used to train both inexperienced and veteran law enforcement agents and helps them learn the modus operandi of some of America’s most skilled and intelligent thieves and burglars. Mr. Del Rio came to the USA to become a mixed martial arts fighter. While here he earned a business degree from the University of San Diego; he also turned to a life of crime during which time he stole more than $16 million in valuables in just under 2 years. (see www.latimes.com dated 8-14-08).

Ex-felon Alex Friedmann has come to be a positive and quite influential force for social change. Friedmann is the vice president of the Private Corrections Institute which is a non-partisan watchdog group which opposes prison privatization and has tremendous support among union groups (see FAQ #1). He is also the associate editor of Prison Legal News. He has testified at both U.S. Congressional and Senate judicial nomination proceedings in opposition of judges who are of questionable integrity. Mr. Friedman is also a pro-se litigator who has challenged Tennessee state’s disenfranchisement statute. He has dedicated his life to community activism and volunteering. This, despite the fact that he served 10 years in prison for armed robbery and attempted murder in the state of Tennessee.

By giving numerous examples of convicted criminals and ex-prisoners who have been, and still are, socially influential, wealthy and intellectually relevant, the authors are by no means attempting to extol the virtues of criminality. Far from it! We are merely setting the tone for an intelligent debate and hopefully assisting the reader to understand why it’s important to have an open mind when it comes to listening to the perspectives, views and thoughts of a prisoner!

RECOMMENDED READING

The authors’ views and perspectives, though based on more than 14 years of combined experience, aren’t just based on their subjective firsthand observations as an incarcerated felons. Quite to the contrary, there are years of academic research that underlie and buttress the views that they espouse.

In addition to providing great insights into the world of corrections, the various books and published studies listed below are written by individuals who have many credentials in their fields and are far more accomplished than the authors in their research and studies. These works also contain numerous arguments and facts that support many of the same arguments and viewpoints that the authors make throughout this book.

We recommend the following books for anyone who is truly interested in: (1) understanding why the views expressed by the authors of this book are correct; (2) studying the complex history and origins of our nation’s prison system; and (3) furthering their understanding of the dynamics of our modern day prison industrial complex.

Douglas A Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name

Chuck Colson, John Echard, Why America Doesn’t Work, World Publishing (1991, Dallas)

Paul Wright & Tara Herivel, Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration (The New Press, 2008)

Marie Gottschalk, The Prison & The Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration

Jacobson, Hardy, Micheal, Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of Contemporary American Prison System (NY, NYU Press, 1998)

Richard Quinney, The Political Economy of Criminal Justice, Class and Crime (Longman; 1977)

Elihu Rosnblatt, Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis (South End Press;)

Jessica Mitford, Kind and Unusual Punishment: The Prison Business Random House(1973)

Andrew, Coyle, Allison Campbell, Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization and Human Rights

Tara Herivel, Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor.

Danial Burton Rose, The Celling of America: An Inside look at the U.S. Prison Industry (Common Courage Press)

Joel Dyer, The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime

David Oshinsky, Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm & the ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

Joy James, States of Confinement: Policing, Detention & Prisons. (St. Martin Press)

G. Larry Mays (Herausgeber) Tara Gray Privatization and the Provision of Correctional Services: Context and Consequences. ACJS/Anderson Monograph Series.

PUBLISHED STUDIES, REPORTS AND LEGAL ESSAYS

For anyone who is interested in undertaking a more in depth study of the issue of Inmate Labor and Prison Industrialization, below are some exceptionally well written legal essays which provide profound in sight and analysis.

Death and Dying in America: The Prison