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Comparing The Quality Of Confinement And Cost-Effectiveness Of Public Versus Private Prisons: What We Know, Why We Do Not Know More, And Where To Go From Here 
Dina Perrone and Travis C. Pratt 
The Prison Journal 83(3): 301-322

Supermax Prisons: Myths, Realities, and the Politics of Punishment in American Society 
Jesenia M. Pizarro, Vanja M. K. Stenius, and Travis C. Pratt 
Criminal Justice Policy Review 17(1): 6-21 (2006)

Foreclosing on Incarceration? State Correctional Policy Enactments and the Great Recession 
Elizabeth K. Brown 
Criminal Justice Policy Review, May 2013; 24(3): 317-337 (2013)