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Prison Privatization and Public DiscourseBrett Burkhardt (brett.burkhardt@oregonstate.edu)Pamela OliverNSF Award 09-25328Project SummaryWe identified and downloaded nearly 1500 articles on prison privatization published 1985-2008 in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. After careful reliability tests, we coded the frames used for discussing prison privatization in the 700 articles for which prison privatization was judged to be the main topic of the article based on the headline and opening paragraphs. We also identified individual utterances about private prisons and their speakers in the 1500 articles.Coding of utterance-level data is continuing after the end of the NSF award. We also collected 1000 articles from Wisconsin newspapers relating to contention over a failed prison privatization effort in that state and more limited information from smaller newspapers in other states including Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These articles have not yet been coded. Data Sets and DocumentationData available for sharing that were compiled with NSF funding are the article-level data. There are five files available:
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