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Intro -- PRISON GROWTH ANDECONOMIC IMPACT -- PRISON GROWTH ANDECONOMIC IMPACT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PRISON GROWTH -- SUMMARY -- CORRECTIONS A RISING CONCERN -- Corrections Sector -- U.S. CORRECTIONS SYSTEM -- PRISONER BOOM -- Incarceration Trends -- PRISON EMPLOYMENT -- Unions -- PRISON CONSTRUCTION -- Rural Prisons -- Cost and Overcrowding -- Financing -- PRIVATE SECTOR -- Private Prison Companies -- The Private Prison Industry -- Corrections Corporation of America -- Geo Group -- Cornell Companies -- Other Private Firms -- Phone Service -- ECONOMIC IMPACT -- Prisons as Drivers of Economic Development -- Shelby, MT -- Hardin, MT -- CHALLENGES FOR POLICYMAKERS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 PRISONERS IN 2008: BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS -- HIGHLIGHTS -- SLOWER GROWTH IN THE STATE PRISON POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH FEWER NEW COURT COMMITMENTS -- NUMBER AND RATE OF PRISON RELEASES INCREASED IN 2008 -- SLOWER GROWTH IN THE PRISON POPULATION SINCE 2000 WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF SENTENCED BLACK PRISONERS -- FEWER BLACKS IMPRISONED FOR DRUG OFFENSES ACCOUNTED FOR MOST OF THE DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF SENTENCED BLACKS IN STATE PRISON -- THE U.S. IMPRISONMENT RATE DECREASED FOR THE SECOND TIME SINCE YEAREND 2000 -- MEN AGES 30 TO 34 AND WOMEN AGES 35 TO 39 HAD THE HIGHEST IMPRISONMENT RATES -- STATE PRISON CAPACITIES WERE HIGHER IN 2008 THAN IN 2000 -- PERCENT OF CAPACITY OCCUPIED DECREASED IN 2008 -- METHODOLOGY -- National Prisoner Statistics -- Military Corrections Statistics -- Other Inmate Counts -- Estimating Changes in Admissions and Releases -- Estimating Age-Specific Incarceration Rates -- DEFINITIONS -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 PRISON CONSTRUCTION: CLEAR COMMUNICATION ON THE ACCURACY OF COST ESTIMATES AND PROJECT CHANGES IS NEEDED -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND