Articles by Clayton Mosher

Don’t Build it Here Revisited (or “There is no Economic Salvation Through Incarceration”) - Prisons Do Not Create Jobs

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2010 by Clayton Mosher published in Prison Legal News January, 2010, page 16

Filed under: Financing, Work, Prison Industries, Statistics/Trends, Prison Tourism/Consumerism. Location: United States of America.

by Clayton Mosher and Gregory Hooks

Despite widespread popular beliefs that prison construction offers substantial economic benefits to local areas, empirical research has suggested otherwise. In an article published in Social Science Quarterly in 2004, Hooks et al. collected data on all existing and new prisons constructed in the United ...

Don't Build It Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2005 by Clayton Mosher published in Prison Legal News January, 2005, page 14

Filed under: Work, Prison Labor, Crime, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.

Don't Build it Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment

by Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter Wood

Fueled by the war on drugs, Draconian sentencing policies, and more general get tough on crime policies, the United States has experienced phenomenal growth in prison populations ...