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And private prison companies lobby state governments to make sentencing more strict, and ask to keep them 90% full. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1272143
by ppseafield 8y ago
And private prison companies lobby state governments to make sentencing more strict, and ask to keep them 90% full.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1272143 https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1272143
- FabHK 8y agoThanks, ppseafield, bluejekyll, very pertinent points. The different economic arrangements certainly shed more light on this. Interesting how fundamental policy decisions trickle down to really affect the behaviour on the street. And, lamentably, you probably have path dependency in there such that it's not easy to reverse these policy decisions. Goes to show how important public policy is.