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• 2012 Corrections Privatization Overview
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 6, 2013
• State and International Corrections Privatization Update
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
  Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
  May 6, 2013
• State and Local Correctional Healthcare Privatization Update
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
  Harris Kenny
  May 6, 2013
• Colorado, Washington State Vote to Tax and Regulate Recreational Marijuana for Adults
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
  Harris Kenny and Andrew Livingston
  May 6, 2013
• Recent Developments in the Federal Civil-Rights Liability of Federal Private Prisons
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
  Alexander Volokh
  May 6, 2013
• The Emergence of Social Impact Bonds: Paying for Success in Social Service Innovation
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: State Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 22, 2013
• Supreme Court Clarifies Standards for Qualified Immunity in Civil Rights Cases -- Or Does It?
  Despite Filarsky ruling, qualified immunity in the privatization context will likely remain confusing
  Alexander Volokh
  April 5, 2013
• What a Recent Labor-Relations Decision Teaches Us About the Meaning of “Public” and “Private”
  Alexander Volokh
  March 21, 2013
• Correctional Privatization Improving Outcomes in Florida
  Letter to the Editor Submitted to The Palm Beach Post
  Harris Kenny
  October 9, 2012
• Union-Propagated Red Herrings Continue to Mar Corrections Research
  Meaningful reform requires an all-of-the-above strategy, including privatization.
  Harris Kenny
  June 13, 2012
• Creating a Culture of Competition to Improve Corrections
  Interview with Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 31, 2012
• Jindal Continued Louisiana Privatization Push in 2011
  Initiatives advanced in Medicaid, public employee health care and more
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 15, 2012
• Kasich Administration Advanced Privatization in Ohio in 2011
  Initiatives advanced in economic development, asset realignment and more
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 15, 2012
• Competition Would Improve North Carolina's Correctional Healthcare Delivery
  Letter to the Editor Submitted to The News & Observer
  Harris Kenny
  May 9, 2012
• Florida Correctional Healthcare Reform in Jeopardy
  The state Department of Corrections should be encouraged for pursuing reform, not stifled.
  Harris Kenny
  February 27, 2012
• Competition Could Lower Costs of Prison Healthcare in Arizona
  Letter to the Editor Submitted to the Arizona Republic
  Leonard Gilroy
  February 24, 2012
• Florida’s Privatization Proposal Could Drive Innovation, Performance in Corrections
  Policymakers should look past political hype, consider the Senate’s proposal on its merits
  Leonard Gilroy and Adrian Moore
  February 10, 2012
• Lawmakers Should Encourage Prison Health Competition, Not Ban It
  Attempt to ban privatization of prison nurses is misguided
  Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
  January 19, 2012
• Embrace Competition to Lower Costs, Improve Performance in Prisons
  Private sector can drive efficiency, improve offender rehabilitation and save taxpayer money
  Leonard Gilroy
  October 12, 2011
• Your Lying Eyes
  How fallible memories send innocent people to prison
  Jacob Sullum
  August 31, 2011
• Injustice, In Plain Sight
  The trouble with eyewitness testimony
  Steve Chapman
  August 29, 2011
• Reading Is Fundamentally Forbidden
  Prison Legal News fights for the First Amendment at South Carolina's Berkeley County Detention Center.
  Greg Beato
  August 25, 2011
• Bad Boys
  A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising
  Radley Balko
  June 27, 2011
• The Facts about American Prisons
  Separating economic myths from economic truths
  Veronique de Rugy
  June 24, 2011
• You’ve Got Jail
  Is it time to bring America’s prisoners online?
  Greg Beato
  June 24, 2011
• The Golden State’s Iron Bars
  How California prison guards became the country’s most powerful union
  Tim Cavanaugh
  June 23, 2011
• Indefensible
  Public defenders are too overloaded to protect the rights of the accused.
  Clay Conrad
  June 22, 2011
• Rape Factories
  Why is the government doing so little to end sexual assault in prisons?
  Lovisa Stannow
  June 20, 2011
• The Crime Rate Puzzle
  Did incarceration reduce the crime rate, or did it get in the way?
  Radley Balko
  June 20, 2011
• Less Time, Less Crime
  Conservatives lead a movement toward “tough and smart” sentencing policies.
  Julie Stewart
  June 15, 2011
• Florida, U.K. Innovate in Corrections Partnerships
  Public-private partnerships target recidivism, rehabilitation
  Leonard Gilroy
  June 8, 2011
• Prison Math
  What are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings?
  Veronique de Rugy
  June 8, 2011
• Wrongful Convictions
  How many innocent Americans are behind bars?
  Radley Balko
  June 7, 2011
• Shrink the Prisons
  Conservatives are as wrong about prison overcrowding as liberals were about welfare reform.
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 7, 2011
• Locked Up, Locked Out
  The social costs of incarceration
  Bruce Western
  June 6, 2011
• Brown v. Plata Ruling Highlights Need for Reform (Not Tax Increases)
  A multi-faceted approach is necessary to finally reform California's correctional system
  Harris Kenny and Adam Summers
  June 2, 2011
• Getting Infrastructure Partnerships Right in Ohio
  Good start, but room for improvement in public-private partnership legislation
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 19, 2011
• Public-Private Partnerships Can Improve Corrections, Safety
  Dominic M. Calabro and Adrian Moore
  April 27, 2011
• AZ Office of the Auditor General Releases Provocative, but Flawed, Review of the Department of Corrections
  Flawed Study Skews Public vs. Private Corrections Cost Comparison
  Harris Kenny
  November 4, 2010
• More Democracy, More Incarceration
  The devastating mix of politics and crime policy
  Radley Balko
  October 25, 2010
• Private Prisons a Smart Strategy for Kentucky
  Letter to the Editor submitted to the Louisville Courier-Journal
  Leonard Gilroy
  July 8, 2010
• Cutting Costs for State's Prisons
  Transferring 25,000 inmates to out-of-state private prisons would save California $1.8 billion over five years
  Jon Coupal and Leonard Gilroy
  April 7, 2010
• Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?
  State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test.
  Radley Balko
  February 22, 2010
• Laissez Les Bon Reforms Roulez
  Government reform, Louisiana-style
  Leonard Gilroy
  December 16, 2009
• Private Prisons a Smart Strategy for Arizona
  Prison privatization opponents rely on myths, not facts
  Leonard Gilroy
  November 17, 2009
• Policymakers Turn to Privatization Amid Prolonged Government Fiscal Crises
  Privatization, public-private partnerships increasingly prominent in fiscal policy debates
  Leonard Gilroy
  August 6, 2009
• Florida Benefitting from Prison Privatization
  Applying competition to corrections delivers cost savings, accountability
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 16, 2009
• "Perfect Storm" Could Accelerate Privatization Trends
  MuniNet Guide Interview with Reason's Leonard Gilroy
  Leonard Gilroy
  October 24, 2008
• Comparing the Performance of Private and Public Prisons
  If you can't win, change the rules
  Geoffrey Segal
  April 4, 2008
• CA Prison System Presents Major Reform Opportunity
  Schwarzenegger needs to battle powerful prison guards
  Geoffrey Segal
  January 12, 2006
• Private Prison Success
  Study says CA private prison is delivering results
  Geoffrey Segal
  November 30, 2005
• Competition Saves Money
  Private prisons would help Georgia cut costs
  Geoffrey Segal and Kelly McCutchen
  October 8, 2004
• Sheriff Can Ease Budget Shortfall With Private Jail
  Marion County should look to private sector
  Geoffrey Segal
  August 13, 2004
• Privatize Prisons, Unlock Savings
  Kentucky proposal to open private prison is good business
  Geoffrey Segal
  August 11, 2004
• States Tap Private Prisons
  Governors looking to save use private sector
  Geoffrey Segal
  July 1, 2004
• Best Prison Reform: Privatization
  CA corrections system if rife with problems
  Geoffrey Segal
  February 24, 2004
• Private Prisons Save Money, Boost Productivity
  Privatization saves 5 to 20 percent
  Geoffrey Segal
  November 17, 2003
• Reality Check on Connecticut Prisons
  Adrian Moore
  July 30, 2003
• Increased Competition Will Lead to Savings
  Virginia could save millions
  Geoffrey Segal
  June 17, 2003
• Cashing In on Gov. Davis' Prison Contract
  Union gets rich at taxpayer expense
  Geoffrey Segal
  July 24, 2002
• Why Spare Prisons From Budget Cuts?
  Prison guards get special treatment from Davis
  David Nott
  January 21, 2002
• Supreme Court Rules on Private Prison Liability
  Inmates at private and government-run prisons should have same rights
  Geoffrey Segal
  January 7, 2002
• Private Prisons Better Suited to Address Problems
  Facilities are more accountable
  Geoffrey Segal
  October 10, 2001
• Innovative Alternatives to Traditional Municipal/County Corrections
  Tested solutions to jail management needs
  Geoffrey Segal
  March 1, 2001
• Prison Escape Highlights System Woes
  Who will correct the corrections system?
  Geoffrey Segal
  January 22, 2001

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