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crime and punishment in private prisons93155. Austin & Coventry, supra note 4, at 49; Camp & Gaes, supra note 153, at 432(finding problems in “inadequate numbers of staff, inexperienced staff, insufficientlytrained staff . . . and physical plant deficiencies”).156. See Freeman, supra note 126, at 188 (“the relative invisibility and low moral statusof the prison population makes prisoners especially vulnerable and heightens theneed for accountability”).157. ACLU Signs Off on Otay Mesa Detainee Overcrowding Deal, San Diego 6,http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c4ca75a4-e665-4535-8cb0-44070322f2e3&gsa=true (last visited Sept. 26, 2009).158. Associated Press, Idaho Private Prison has Triple Assault Rate, KTVB.com, Nov.10, 2008, http://www.ktvb.com/news/crime/stories/ktvbn-nov1008-private_prison_assaults.19d675fe6.html.159. Dimitria D. Pope, Texas Youth Commission, Coke County JuvenileJustice Center Audit 7 (2007), available at http://privateci.org/private_pics/tyc_CokeCounty_AuditReport[1].pdf.160. Id.161. Austin & Coventry, supra note 4, at 36 (“The U.S. District Court . . . grantedpreliminary approval of a $1.6 million settlement on behalf of the District inmateswho claimed that they were abused, denied adequate medical care, and not properlyseparated from other inmates.”).162. The Sentencing Project, Prison Privatization and the Use ofIncarceration 3 (2004), http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/inc_prisonprivatization.pdf.163. Id.164. Austin & Coventry, supra note 4, at 46.165. Interview with Damon Hininger, in Stephanie Chen, Larger Inmate Population isBoon to Private Prisons, Wall St. J., Nov. 18, 2008, available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122705334657739263.html.166. It should be noted that many states <strong>have</strong> restorative schemes whereby inmates“pay” back their victims from work performed within the penitentiary. Certainlya private prison corporation would <strong>have</strong> an incentive to see such legislation passed.However, for the purposes of this section, I am discussing only those restorativejustice schemes that exist as alternatives to prison terms.167. Banks, supra note 87, at 118.168. Id. at 119.169. Suthers, supra note 86, at 46 (“Restitution should play a very important role insentencing in many cases and virtually none in others.”).170. See id. at 46.171. See id.at 46.172. Eleanor Hannon Judah & Michael Bryant, Criminal Justice: Retributionv. Restoration 58 (2004). And see Corrections Corporation of America 2005Annual Report, reprinted in Greene, supra note 56, at 1 (“[P]ossible growth dependson a number of factors we cannot control. . . . [A]ny changes with respect to

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