Steel Town Lockdown
- Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. [Mother Jones]
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/05/steeltown.html

The Big (Empty) House
- A new $45 million medium-security prison that is apparently the result of a miscommunication is set to open in Stewart County, Georgia next month and will have everything a correctional facility needs, except prisoners. [MoJo Wire: Must Read]
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/mustreads/2000/08/081600.html

Private Prisons: Profits of Crime
- Article critical of private prisons. Discusses ethical, legal, practical, and historical arguments against prison privatization. Published by Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1993.
- http://mediafilter.org/MFF/Prison.html

The Ties that Bind
- Commentary, by Carol Strick, about the ties between corporations and prisons. [North Coast Express]
- http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/98-12%20WIN/tiesthatbind.html

The Prison-Industrial Complex
- An analysis of the public and private systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the industry, with photographs. [Atlantic Monthly]
- http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm