Criminal
Nov. 8, 2014
Do private prisons up incarceration rates?
The focus on private prison companies as the source - or even the salient representation - of all evil in American incarceration is misguided and myopic. By Hadar Aviram
There are plenty of reasons to be upset about the immense scale of American incarceration, as well as about prison and jail conditions - and many decent people are upset enough to seek action. Many such people rally around what the advocacy literature frequently refers to as the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), a term coined to capture the economic incentives shared by government and industry to maintain and profit from mass incarceration. Public ...
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