This sounds logical...but in fact other incentives much more impt than private prison in driving incarceration.https://twitter.com/ticketdust/status/664561277839257600 …
@hoodedu @ticketdust seems at least plausible to me that gov't actors have similar incentives to drive prison size up (?)
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@aspasia_project Yes! Just wrote about this: http://www.playboy.com/articles/bernie-sanders-private-prisons …
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@hoodedu Yes, particularly local prosecutors who use their positions (and conviction rates) as political stepping stones. -
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@hoodedu Really aggressively high Federal funding for Public Defender offices could help ameliorate that dynamic.
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